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> Meanwhile, the work that could actually use our talents is hard to find, because our society is in such a depraved state that social media gets VC-megabucks b
by vonmoltke 13y ago
> Meanwhile, the work that could actually use our talents is hard to find, because our society is in such a depraved state that social media gets VC-megabucks but cancer research gets peanuts.
Not only that, but social media will hire the college dropout with an impressive Github portfolio while the cancer research institute will shitcan any resume that doesn't have an MS or PhD on it.
- michaelochurch 13y agoIt's really disturbing to realize what has happened to the sciences. The death of the scientific/academic job market is why us smart people hate "business douches" so much; the fuckers shut down all the R&D. Those assholes struck first. (To be fair, plenty of businesspeople do more good for the world than bad and aren't douches. It's the shitty ones that have no better ideas than to cut costs recklessly. The problem is that no one shuts them down.) In the 1970s, there were Bachelor-level science jobs. There was an expectation, of course, that most people would go back for graduate degrees; but it gave people a chance to spend a few years in the field and figure out what they wanted to do with their lives before committing to a graduate program. Those Bachelor-level science jobs still exist. The problem is that they're all filled by PhDs. Even most of this Silicon Valley "innovation" in social media isn't half as interesting as the stuff marketers did in the Mad Men era. M&A replacing R&D is one of the worst social developments around. Who's going to bring back Real Technology? Someone will see the value in doing so, I hope.