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Originally Posted by Bill8
So, your sayin they are smart enough just lazy as fuck and unmotivated. Maybe stoned, or ah, ya know, not taking their adhd meds.
Sure, I'll buy that. Not quite sure why it makes a difference, employment wise.
Maybe if the 'rents give them a stern talking to they would get motivated.
Or maybe they don't want to work for the empire? And them indian nerds are just as eager as fuck to work for the man.
Hey, I get that - I don't want to work for the man either, I'd rather sell porn.
So, maybe there's a deep moral and philosophical issue, it's not just dumbness and lack of motivation.
Would the kids bust the books if they believed that there were jobs worth doing in america?
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let's say we whipped our kids into shape academically, i'm not sure about numbers of kids who graduate high school and college each year but let's say we doubled the number of kids who graduate high school and make it to college and get a degree of some kind.
so now we have hundreds of thousands of more kids each year with BA's, BSc, Comp Sci, graphic arts degrees, engineering degrees - where are the jobs for them?
It's bs, it doesn't matter if we have more smart people, the jobs will still be going offshore to those with similar degrees who work cheaper.
I'm old and I remember being in high school and in my geography class the topic of 'globalization' and also robots/automation taught/discussed and I remember asking myself if all these jobs that were around 25 years ago were going to be replaced by offshore workers and robotics what the hell were all these people going to do to make a good living? And the teacher I remember talking about how this was a great thing, how we'd only be working 4 day work weeks(making the same amount of money), how Americans would be re-trained/educated for different types of jobs, new technology. We have our new technology and a ton of those jobs are being farmed out too and not everybody can be an adult webmaster or an Ebay power seller.