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Frankly I would put it the other way around. We have a system of work that doesn't serve society's interests. Created scarcity forces people to do undesirable l
by bscphil 7y ago
Frankly I would put it the other way around. We have a system of work that doesn't serve society's interests. Created scarcity forces people to do undesirable labor instead of things that would be genuinely worthwhile. Universities are already training too many middle managers, even though the market is demanding more middle managers. There's a difference between what the market demands and what free people would choose for themselves.
Disclaimer: I work at a university.
- solidsnack9000 7y agoUniversities do a poor job of training technical workers -- engineers, programmers, technicians. For every middle manager there are ten workers, who need technical schools. One way to see this is in programming. So many people come out of CS programs with little practical programming ability -- even programs like Stanford. The kids who learn the most in school are, often enough, people with backgrounds in computational biology or physics where they have to work on real software engineering problems -- like maintaining legacy code -- from the first day that they type code in a text editor. Where is the Embry-Riddle for software engineering?