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by telling everyone that STEM is the place to be, isn't America doing just the same - creating people who are uninterested in what they are doing, but doing it
by sonabinu 13y ago
by telling everyone that STEM is the place to be, isn't America doing just the same - creating people who are uninterested in what they are doing, but doing it anyway because it is the most likely way to stay employed in a field where the skills are in demand!
- avelis 13y agoThere is alot going on in your statement that you actually have to pull apart. I couldn't even begin to start that process. However, I will say that the comparison is not the same. And more notably, if America is indeed taking the initiative to encourage STEM, it doesn't seem to be working as well as we might think it does.
- GrinningFool 13y agoWe saw a surge of crappy American programmers in the late 90s, arriving on the other side of the dot-com boom. The exact same kinds of problems, slightly mitigated by the fact that when someone is on-site sitting next to you, it is a little easier to walk them through what they're doing wrong. You've hit the nail on the head though - we're setting ourselves up for exactly the same kind of problems we first started seeing in the 90s, and then much more as we started importing 'cheap talent' from abroad and created a boom in demand for warm bodies that could type.