There are surely a lot of ways to answer “yes” to the question posed in the headline. The people who hate the financial industry, for instance, must be happy to see the bloodletting on Wall Street, as must those who simply enjoy a dose of schadenfreude now and again.
But I am thinking of a different kind of silver lining, one that may reach far and wide and have lasting positive effects.
First, let’s step back for a minute and look at a different kind of labor shakeup that happened more than 50 years ago. At the time, about 55 percent of all white female college graduates worked as schoolteachers. Why? Because teaching was one of the few professions that educated women had good access to.

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