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"College grads with tech backgrounds - the lottery ticket, or so we thought in American life - are having a harder time getting jobs than biology majors." Soun
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1y ago
"College grads with tech backgrounds - the lottery ticket, or so we thought in American life - are having a harder time getting jobs than biology majors."
Sounds about right in terms of importance to society
Maybe surveillance, data collection and targeted ads is not a realistic "business model" long term. ZIRP ends, reality hits. Big Tech has to cut costs and employees are a big cost, especially overpaid ones ("tech" employees believed they were assets, now they know the truth)
Silicon Valley is betting the farm on "AI". The Hail Mary
- closeparen 1y agoAmerican society’s view of the importance of biomedical research is directly written down in NIH grantmaking and funding levels. It’s not looking good.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1y ago"That's more than twice the unemployment rate among recent biology grads, which is just 3 percent." If uneployment for recent biology grads at 3% is "not looking good" then for recent computer science grads at more than 6% unemployment, things are looking much worse