Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn...
by akira2501 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:13AM
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> Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think
I think a lot of it is pricing and the debt model we use to fund it.
> Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymore
The returns on that investment just aren't as good as they used to be, couple that with the required debt above, and stagnant wage growth in these industries and I'd say it's clear they aren't valued anymore.
> and has to either outsource the work or import workers who do from elsewhere.
That's actually seems more like part of the reasons for the above issues than it is something that follows from it.
Combine all this with the fact that total self-employment and other measures of entrepreneurship have been trending downwards lately while the level of corporate integration and mergers have been increasing and it's a recipe for the destruction of middle to middle-upper class incomes and careers.
> What I see instead is people pushing for anti-intellectualism and valuing the "college dropouts".
This is a symptom of a sick system, and when the system is sick, it's inhabitants become sick as well.
I think a lot of it is pricing and the debt model we use to fund it.
> Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymore
The returns on that investment just aren't as good as they used to be, couple that with the required debt above, and stagnant wage growth in these industries and I'd say it's clear they aren't valued anymore.
> and has to either outsource the work or import workers who do from elsewhere.
That's actually seems more like part of the reasons for the above issues than it is something that follows from it.
Combine all this with the fact that total self-employment and other measures of entrepreneurship have been trending downwards lately while the level of corporate integration and mergers have been increasing and it's a recipe for the destruction of middle to middle-upper class incomes and careers.
> What I see instead is people pushing for anti-intellectualism and valuing the "college dropouts".
This is a symptom of a sick system, and when the system is sick, it's inhabitants become sick as well.