Posted on 01/01/2020 5:58:57 PM PST by conservative98
God only knows where Biden got the idea that coal mining consists of throwing the stuff into a furnace. Thats not how it works, but I digress. Bidens recommendation is stale stuff. Its the kind of rhetoric that will only sway voters whose ideal president is a machine that spits out a white paper from 1998 every time someone pushes a button. Re-training programs for workers in precarious industries have been with us for a long time.So has a specific fixation on the tech industry, as though its a cure-all for rural poverty.
But 1998 was a long time ago. Its evident now that re-training programs including the ones that teach miners and factory workers and whoever else to code are not the panacea that technocrats hoped theyd become. Despite decades of investments by the federal government in a patchwork of job-retraining efforts, most have been found to be ineffective according to numerous studies over the years, and it remains unclear to experts whether the programs are even up to the task of preparing workers for the new economy,Jeffrey Selingo recently wrote for The Atlantic. Privately-run efforts arent always effective, either. As the New York Times reported earlier this year, students sued the founders of Mined Minds, a non-profit that promised paid apprenticeships every graduate of its coding program, for fraud. The jobs did not appear;most students didnt even complete the program.
Theyre coming here promising stuff that they dont deliver, the husband of a former student told the Times. People do that all the time. Theyve always done it to Appalachians.
Some day, the mines will close, and mining communities will need new jobs and radical policy solutions if theyre going to survive. But Biden and his fellow technocrats fail to grasp a foundational fact about coal
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not coding but they could learn welding. there’s tremendous demand for welders and the pay is fantastic. this is true for a bunch of different trades. training takes a year sometimes two. and they’re good to go.
Coders should learn to mine.
“Learn to code”
Doesn’t get you anywhere with big tech hiring people from India to do their coding.
Stay in your place is the Leftists’ mantra.
Perfect... Learn to code, so you can be replaced by 3rd world labor (H1B)
Learn Code?? He doesn’t even know the language of today. Who says that....leftover from WWII when we were using Morse Code??
I remember seeing wage stats on ‘retrained’ workers a while ago. They made, maybe, 50% of what their old job paid. You shove me into a coal mine and pay me by productivity and I’ll be lucky to make 10% of what miners make...they’re damn special people to go down there and pull coal for Americans.
...and I’m still old enough to remember when Democrats used to RESPECT hard-working Americans, now they save their ‘respect’ for rich globalists, Illegals, and people who can’t figure out what their body parts are for.
The thought of that man being President should frighten everyone.
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We need coal. Coal is concentrated energy. Cant get that from a solar panel or a windmill. Isnt going to happen.
2. Journalists should learn to code
Here in NYS, we're trading off rich farmlands for solar farms....which we don't need. We could tap the natural gas....but that would be too easy.
Coal is there for the taking.
Learn to code? Ha! To excel, heck even to have modest success and anything resembling job satisfaction in software development you have to have the knack. Training can only take you so far. If you don’t have “it” you can’t learn it. Development is a creative endeavor. Authoring software is similar to working on a commissioned piece of art. There are guidelines to follow, constraints, but it is still a creative act.
Democrats are so scummy and condescending to working class people in fly over country that the Dems dont think they are smart enough to wipe their butts properly, much less write sophisticated computer code.
Fact is, there are a very few jobs in the programing biz and even fewer people who are really qualified to write code
The Democrat learn to code mantra is a snarky insult to blue collar workers.
Democrats are so scummy and condescending to working class people in fly over country that the Dems dont think they are smart enough to wipe their butts properly, much less write sophisticated computer code.
Fact is, there are a very few jobs in the programing biz and even fewer people who are really qualified to write code
Uncle Pervy Joe has never done an honest days work in his life like a miner.
Can you even picture Old, Creepy Joe learning to code?
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