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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Will we see Bloomberg milking a cow in his next ad? It would be better than the silly gingerbread man.
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!
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.
I’ll use this thread to link to one of my favorite YouTube channels, bigtractorpower.
Disclaimer, I am only a fan, nothing more.
The Iowa caucus is over, can you score less than zero.
Done both. Nobody who has ever tried it will tell you farming is easy. Or rather, farming successfully is easy.
Sure, they are no nonsense, but I guarantee you that there life is more involved than just sticking seeds in the ground.
“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...
Bloomberg and Biden are competing for the Don Rickles award!
He’s an idiot.
William Jennings Bryan
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...
I like it.
what a jerk, he can just eat computers and network cables.
that too
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.
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