pit that FPOS in a modern tractor and watch it's eyes glaze over...
Posted on 02/17/2020 3:37:31 PM PST by Beave Meister
It’s no wonder he chose to skip the Iowa caucus, given that former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg apparently thinks farmers and manufacturers all across America lack “gray matter."
In a clip just now circulating online, Bloomberg, while speaking at Oxford’s Said Business School back in 2016, explained that "anybody [can] be a farmer," but that it takes "a lot more gray matter" to "think and analyze" enough to work in the tech field.
“I could teach anybody – even people in this room, no offense intended – to be a farmer,” Bloomberg explained. “It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that.”
Bloomberg then switched to insulting manufacturers and tradesmen.
"Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal in the lathe, you turn the crank in direction of an arrow, and you can have a job,” he said.
Having a job in information technology, he said, is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set. You have to have a lot more gray matter.”
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Yeah, who needs food?
Mikey just might have a little bit of trouble in heartland states like Iowa . . .
pit that FPOS in a modern tractor and watch it's eyes glaze over...
Put some techies out in the fields and see what happens, and I’ll bet dollars for donuts that the techies would perform better than those suits who talk a bunch of BS.
When he loses he should be expelled from the country.
He can go “Make China Great Again”.
That was not a politically savvy comment by the little one...
Is he the kind of arrogant elitist New Yorker, who can’t survive more than 48 hours away from the island of Manhattan????
Very few farmers around where I live don’t have degrees in agriculture or agri-business. Bloomberg must think that it is still 1920...
He didn’t say farming wasn’t useful or important.
Nothing elitist about Mini Mike.
What an ignorant, arrogant snob.
Growing up, my father relentlessly pounded the value of education into us. College was extremely important. Yet, at the same time he also told me that regardless of what job you had in life, if you did your best it was honorable work. He NEVER looked down on anyone based on their type of job.
He wasn’t running for office when he said it. Which probably means that it’s what he really thinks.
What an @$$. Farmers and machinists, carpenters, electricians and etc need an education too. I know farmers whom went to college and have degrees.
What a Blooming Idiot!
He is clueless.
True, but it was a foolish thing to say.
I’ve seen example after example of his poor judgement.
Making an integrated circuit is simply a process. So is nuclear welding. Anyone can do it. Maybe even Mini Mike.
You can't. The little bastard's feet wouldn't reach the pedals.
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