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Creating tech jobs will drive tech salaries up. That will attract new workers to tech (make it worth the investment to retrain, etc), and 'trickle down' money t
by smanek 15y ago
Creating tech jobs will drive tech salaries up. That will attract new workers to tech (make it worth the investment to retrain, etc), and 'trickle down' money to manufacturing and other industries.
Making the pie bigger is good.
Of course $90M and a few hundred jobs won't shift equilibrium much on its own, but it's a step in the right direction.
- kmccarth 15y agoahh, Reagan's trickle-down effect. fingers-crossed...
- samtp 15y agoit trickles down in a golden stream, quenching the thirst of the masses
- cgarb 15y agoAgreed with smanek - step in the right direction and trickle down does make sense. Where we have a problem is our educational infrastructure. We would see way more people going into tech if we had more people able to teach it to them. Need to be teaching CS way earlier in school and should be mandatory. CS should replace lost manufacturing jobs.
- pyoung 15y agoTrickle down? Seriously? Even if trickle down had a positive effect on the economy (which it doesn't), technology tends to have a negative effect on employment anyway. I am all for advances in technology, it increases efficiency, productivity, and quality of life. But let's face it, Amazon put a ton of brick and mortars out of business, e-mail's killing the postal service, humans are pushed out of manufacturing jobs by advances in robotics, etc...