the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by locallost on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:10AM (#36768063)

None of the above. The true reason is that Germans are too conservative to invest in tech. You cannot have startups without investors and Germans will keep money in the bank, buy real estate, even invest in index funds, but startups give them too little of a guarantee of a return. You can remove overregulation, whatever it may consist of, but there will still be no funding at least not when compared to the US.

But German economy is actually fine, moving slow and steady is their way and it works for them. I also don't really think universities should spend so much time on "programming", they are not vocational training programs. I wrote software and got paid for it before I studied, and didn't go to a university to learn that. If there's one thing German society can do with young people it's to teach them to take more risks. But programming can be learned from a book.

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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by Aperocky on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:47PM (#36779536)

That would have been true for most majors.

The universities and colleges around the world have not adopted to the new reality where knowledge up to Master Degree level is essentially freely available to everyone with an internet connection.

But colleges are still needed - if only for human reasons. And that's where I believe they should emphasize. A place where young people discover what they want to do and weigh their options. Instead of being assigned a major and mostly determined coursework.

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