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More money is spent on marketing products than on sustainability. The top wealthiest companies in the U.S. will shove money into offshore bank accounts and refu
by devwastaken 5y ago
More money is spent on marketing products than on sustainability. The top wealthiest companies in the U.S. will shove money into offshore bank accounts and refuse to spend it on the U.S. The largest tech companies provide the least funding in education, and heavily target schools and students to gain significant profit.
Sustainability, like every other issue, is based on socioeconomic ability. Being "Green" is expensive as an individual. The best way we resolve that issue, same as many others, is a mass rewrite of education, funded by private companies. This will not happen so long as there is a surplus of skilled work. We can easily demonstrate the surplus by how little these companies invest into getting skilled workers.
- moralestapia 5y ago>This will not happen so long as there is a surplus of skilled work. We can easily demonstrate the surplus by how little these companies invest into getting skilled workers. Interesting, isn't there a shortage of talent going on (suppossedly)?
- orbifold 5y agoThere is always a shortage of talent at the right price.
- pvorb 5y agoI'd say, yes. The US is just consuming talent from the entire world and it works because tech jobs in the US have really competitive salaries. But this talent is missing elsewhere, so I don't think it's sustainable in the long run.
- devwastaken 5y agoNo. If there were these companies have so much money they could build a massive university in every state just for themselves and lose very little money. They don't, because they don't have to. Unfilled positions are "nice to have's", not a requirement of their work. They will not lose money over that position not being filled, not to the amount they believe matters. Therefore, the wheel keeps on turning.
- KMag 5y ago> The top wealthiest companies in the U.S. will shove money into offshore bank accounts and refuse to spend it on the U.S. "Shove money into offshore bank accounts" makes it sound like they're moving money from inside the U.S. to offshore in order to hide it. I don't think they're exporting money from the U.S. As I understand it, they're stockpiling foreign-earned money outside the U.S. and not importing it.