Soooo late last night into this morning I discovered a couple articles about our DOG(E) buddies and what they have been saying. So, this is political but not political.
Apparently, we don’t have any real Talent in computer issues (engineering) in the US and they have to “import” good talent from other countries. Whaaaaaaaaat? I’m wondering if they aren’t looking in the right places. Elon fired a bunch of people on Xitter and there’s some talent right there!
But we don’t have good enough engineers in the US. We are mediocre. Gee Elon, why did you come to, and stay, in the United States? If the talent is so mediocre, why don’t you go back to your home country and work from there? That way you’re right there in a place where there’s talent, right? That’s where you can get talent from other countries MUCH more easily than here in the US. You don’t need to fuss with H-1B visas here in the US to bring talent in. And if the US talent is so bad, how did you get Space-X up and rolling?
And Vivek, lordy, my eyes are rolling back in my head. “The American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long – decades, even.” Then how did you get rich? How much talent did you need to bring in for your business? Yet “native Americans” do not have an IQ deficit, riiiiiiight, that means importing talent is the most efficient way to go. There are any number of things that American talent has done. How about putting a man on the moon? How about the new big telescope floating out in space? How about building the ISS? We had a hand in that too. Yet our talent in the US isn’t good enough. Your wealth comes from biotech and financial institutions. It may or may not require engineers but it’s still American talent.
These yahoos need to get slapped. If the US isn’t good enough for you, then go somewhere else. For example, Elon has so much money he could go live in space and not worry about his businesses. I’ll bet Xitter will work up there just fine, but if not, just put up a Starlink system and you’ll be good.
These jerks are supposed to improve government efficiency when they have nothing but derision for the Americans. Well, except for Trump (so far) but I don’t consider him an American. I consider him an asshole that we are stuck with for the next (hopefully only) 4 years. They like waving their dicks around and pretend to know what they’re doing. The US government is NOT SMALL yet they think they will cut waste from all of it. That is NOT as easy as they seem to think it will be. What is likely to be cut are programs Americans desperately need, like Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare. THEY don’t have to worry about having enough money to live on. But Americans and our lack of talent do.
So the waste they wanted to cut is Americans.
Go away, guys. Go somewhere that panders to your egos and leave the American talent at home, here, where it belongs.
Granted. And yet, the general American education has been like an untended garden for a fair amount of years with some state areas being particularly weedy. And the incoming administration has plans to accelerate the neglect.
It’s the republican way. Why spend money on public education when you can make money by privitizing?
I recall that in the early 2000s, I decided to take a master’s program in computer program engineering, and I, a mature white woman found myself in a class that was comprosed of mostly young Indian and asian students. It seems that those courses are deemed to haaard for our American youth. Sad. Our educational system has fallen apart. Teachers are required to know HOW to teach, but they are not required to know the content they need to teach, so students do not learn content these days. Learning content is much harder than simply being able to use Google to look things up. So no one really has depth of knowledge these days, or the persistence that comes with having to memorize or retain a fund of knowledge. Learning how to program requires those skills as well as things such as logic, which in my youth was gleaned from being reqired to do such things as geometrical proofs.
Chip and Dale…chatty chipmunks living at the top of the American tree. What’s that noise? Look! There’s a fat man, looking like a Creamsicle, in a red hat, at the bottom with a chainsaw. I’m no prophet, but this cannot turn out well. As Dylan sang long ago: you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.