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Bloomberg: 'Anybody [Can] Be a Farmer,' It Takes 'A Lot More Gray Matter' To Work In Tech
MRC TV ^ | 2/17/2020 | Brittany M. Hughes

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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To: Beave Meister

Will we see Bloomberg milking a cow in his next ad? It would be better than the silly gingerbread man.


41 posted on 02/17/2020 4:19:32 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Beave Meister

Yes, all those H-1B Tech Visa holders getting diplomas from online mills in India have sooo much more grey matter than farmers who have worked the land for generations ...SHEESH...

Not to mention all the tech and plant breeding innovations in farming... SHEESH again!


42 posted on 02/17/2020 4:19:41 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Beave Meister

I just started working last year in the agriculture industry in IT. I have developed a deep respect for farmers. They are true entrepreneurs. Every year they have to borrow a bunch of money for machines, fuel, fertilizer, crop insurance, etc. They roll the dice every year. Nothing is guaranteed. The last couple of years of flooding have been devastating for them here in the Midwest. One more year of flooding would be really, really, really bad, and it looks like it’s coming.


43 posted on 02/17/2020 4:22:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Beave Meister
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tVOx7Mj-IaE/XkrW1ctRniI/AAAAAAAACT8/diR90iElV8QhvAxDK3jLskNzCWXw7H2uQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/eisenhower.jpg
44 posted on 02/17/2020 4:24:27 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: Beave Meister

45 posted on 02/17/2020 4:24:44 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Beave Meister

I’ll use this thread to link to one of my favorite YouTube channels, bigtractorpower.

Disclaimer, I am only a fan, nothing more.

https://youtu.be/ouMJCDwK7FE


46 posted on 02/17/2020 4:28:32 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: colorado tanker

The Iowa caucus is over, can you score less than zero.


47 posted on 02/17/2020 4:28:39 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Beave Meister

Done both. Nobody who has ever tried it will tell you farming is easy. Or rather, farming successfully is easy.


48 posted on 02/17/2020 4:29:19 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Beave Meister
I grew up in a rural area. Farmers can be simple. But they are usually, tough, resourseful, and hard working. They know how to fix a broken axle on a tractor. They know what they have to do in February. And April. And July. They shovel shit. They apply balm to chapped udders. They understand markets, banks, lines of credit, government regulations. They get up at 4:00 am. They respect the land. They worship on Sundays. They understand nature, city slickers, politicians and con artists.

Sure, they are no nonsense, but I guarantee you that there life is more involved than just sticking seeds in the ground.

49 posted on 02/17/2020 4:29:39 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Chode

“put that FPOS in a modern tractor and watch it’s eyes glaze over... “

Put a hoe in his hands and watch it’s eyes glaze over...


50 posted on 02/17/2020 4:30:06 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Beave Meister

Bloomberg and Biden are competing for the Don Rickles award!


51 posted on 02/17/2020 4:31:25 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Beave Meister

He’s an idiot.


52 posted on 02/17/2020 4:32:30 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: EEGator
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

William Jennings Bryan

53 posted on 02/17/2020 4:35:19 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Beave Meister

What a f’ing idiot-he is not going to influence anyone by insulting all of us in rural America as well as factory workers-and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have the intelligence or ability to do any of the work we do out here in BFE-or in an auto factory, furniture factory, etc...


54 posted on 02/17/2020 4:36:53 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: reg45

I like it.


55 posted on 02/17/2020 4:37:06 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Beave Meister
Hey mickey....how much food does that techy stuff get to your table in the big city?
56 posted on 02/17/2020 4:37:08 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Beave Meister

what a jerk, he can just eat computers and network cables.


57 posted on 02/17/2020 4:40:22 PM PST by GregH
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To: Beave Meister
Paul Harvey - God Made A Farmer

-PJ

58 posted on 02/17/2020 4:41:39 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Born to Conserve

that too


59 posted on 02/17/2020 4:45:55 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: reg45

My point is that if mini-Mike got the Dem nomination, that quote is going to be played over and over again in ads in Iowa and all ag areas.


60 posted on 02/17/2020 4:46:05 PM PST by colorado tanker
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