Not Fake News https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-backlash-for-condescending-remarks-about-farmers https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomb

Not Fake News https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-backlash-for-condescending-remarks-about-farmers https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-... [..]While speaking at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School in 2016, Bloomberg was asked if Americans living on the coasts — who are generally more liberal — could be unified with those who live in middle America, who are generally more conservative. In response, Bloomberg implied that anyone could be a farmer because it requires a low-level of intelligence to be successful. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture; today it's 2 percent in the United States. Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.[..]