Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by leggomylibro on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:56PM
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Sure, but education on those topics has also never been cheaper or more accessible. And these days, you could use something like MakeCode to automate simple tasks without ever touching a programming environment.
There still aren't many people muddling through the introductory online courses on those topics, but there could be. Encouraging participation in learning about useful subjects seems like another good goal which could be helped by the low cost-at-scale of things like MOOCs, and showing people how to make useful things actually happen in the real world seems like a good way to reinforce that encouragement.
Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by icebraining on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:32PM
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These people are working in very stressful environments, often for 10-12 hours/day, and making a pittance (which also adds to overall stress). Add a kid, and the idea of having time and mental energy for learning programming starts to sound a bit far-fetched.
Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish...
by leggomylibro on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:22PM
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Fine, but what can anyone do to reach someone in that situation? Could we maybe start with people who work 8-10 hours/day, make enough for beer money, and can leave their children with friends or family to make room for maybe 4-8 hours out of a month?
Or should we just look at the situation, throw up our hands, and
I think you need to step out of the engineer shoes.
The majority of people struggle to understand their computer works, let alone building their own robots and writing the software.