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by dukeluke 10y ago
The comment above is flagged so I am unable to understand what they said, but the effect of culture on a society is underrated in my opinion. There is kind of a widespread opinion that all of the advancement of white people is due to racism
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Yes, it is bad. It lowers the wages of Americans and makes finding an entry level tech position for Americans a lot harder. The purpose of the H-1B visa program was to bring highly specialized workers to the US, not cheap labor.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Exactly. An industry with a high barrier to entry is prone to becoming a monopoly.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
> You don't even support your statement: "affirmative action means women and minorities get preferential treatment during hiring." Are you saying this is untrue? If I am wrong, then what is affirmative action?
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Right. That was exactly my point with my first post. The only way you can get a job in this industry without being in a tech city is to have a degree. I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for pointing that out.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I have been doing tech support for nearly two years now. I've gotten plenty of certs, am mostly through college, and always ask to do more. It doesn't seem to matter in this area.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Affirmative action means women and minorities get preferential treatment during hiring. Given the fact that women and minorities are underrepresented in tech, it should be obvious that they would have an incentive to join the industry becau
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by dukeluke 10y ago
As a young man in America, I would only recommend this if you both live in a tech city and hold a degree. I have neither, and so despite my ability to develop software, I am not taken seriously by employers.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I see no merit in forced diversity. If they have the opportunity and incentive to choose this field, yet go elsewhere, that's fine by me.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Given the fact that every college in the country enacts affirmative action, it's apparent that non-whites and women would have no problem getting into the IT field. And given the fact that over 60 percent of people graduating college t
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Nothing is keeping women and minorities out of tech, they're just choosing different careers.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I disagree. From an evolutionary standpoint right now, the best thing an animal could do would be to be liked by humans. If we disband our love for cats and dogs and stop using them as pets, then after a while the only remaining ones would
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by dukeluke 10y ago
There are many other good arguments you could use to say that racism still exists, but voter ID laws isn't a good one. Brown people can get an ID just as easily as white.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I disagree. I was raised being told that race doesn't matter, and I don't see it as an issue. Continuing to acknowledge race will just amplify the natural tendency of people to categorize people based on differences.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Termination may be the goal, but centralization is the result.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
And so the centralization of our tech industry continues...
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Well they've gotten by with this archaic IT infrastructure with massive profits, so maybe they're onto something.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
That's the thing. Most new tech jobs are only being created in the tech hubs of the country. The rest of the country is seeing a decline in good IT jobs.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
You say there's a shortage, yet all software development jobs available require a Bachelor's degree plus 3-5 years of experience. That doesn't seem like much of a shortage to me.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
How would you say the tone has changed?
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Your caveat is key in my opinion. The amount of wealth in America is inarguably larger than ever before, but many aren't benefiting from it. The real problem is wealth inequality. So the question is: what can we do to redistribute weal
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I mentioned downvoting and wasn't downvoted. I think that's just the community telling you that they think you're wrong.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Globalization means there's a race to the bottom to see what country can make things the cheapest. It means labor laws and expecting good treatment of employees makes a country uncompetitive, and makes local income equality nearly impo
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by dukeluke 10y ago
You raise a good point. Protectionism would really hurt countries that depend on exports, like a lot of Eastern Asia. Would it hurt a country like America that depends more on imports and is big enough to have its own industry? I don't
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by dukeluke 10y ago
If labor wasn't needed for many manufacturing jobs, then labor wouldn't be used overseas. A problem with requiring all jobs to require an advanced degree is that not everyone is capable of doing so. Should the less intelligent liv
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by dukeluke 10y ago
This. Lower and middle class wages have been stagnant for way too long. If protectionism isn't a good way to realistically raise lower and middle class wages in America, then what is? (Keyword: realistically. Universal basic income is
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by dukeluke 10y ago
There are many who say protectionism hurts a country, yet here we see India's protectionist legislation leading to a lot of new, local jobs. Why wouldn't that work in the US? Edit: to those downvoting me, I'd like to remind y
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by dukeluke 10y ago
It's also a good idea to assume Tor is already pwned and to follow good opsec(burner devices, mac address cloaking, using open/pwned wifi APs, loading & running OS completely through ram, and use hard drive write blockers). Tr
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Well I would work remote, but almost all jobs that should be done remotely have been outsourced.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
It's a bit presumptuous that everyone living in rural areas is unskilled. I've got nearly two years in the tech industry, hold several certifications, and almost have a BS completed. But because I live in a rural area & all th

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