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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
I guess ol Minnie Mouth Mike has never set foot in a 20 row planter that is all computer controlled and GPS positioned.
Animal husbandry with artificial insemination, herd telemetry...
Made this post on another thread —
The way Bloomie speaks is typical of a rich, isolationist upper crust city boy who would get run over by a cow in the country.
In the early ‘80s I worked for the American Soybean Association and we worked with thousands of farmers all across the country. We also advocated for them in DC. I can tell you from first hand experience, the farmers were the FIRST to adopt computer technology. During this time a personal computer ran about $3K; the farmers used them for animal breeding programs, their crop oversight and of course, they were all LLCs, so it was used for bookkeeping and tax purposes. Most Farmers I know (in and outside my family) are college graduates.
Mini-Mike is such a fool —and if he were stranded on a desert island, pick the farmer and he’d get a computer geek as a bonus....
#ok bloomer......
Don’t talk with your mouth full
With geniuses like this in charge you can bet on future food shortages...
...and you can bet that only the perfect voters have enough to eat.
More convinced than ever that Bloomy ONLY contributed the funds to his big venture. I don’t care how many letters he has behind his name. Educated isn’t the same thing as smart and he just isn’t very smart.
I think most techies would starve before they learned how to make a living at farming. It would requires more than just reading “how to” stuff on YouTube and Google search. Besides techies don’t have the physical stamina for farming.
No kidding. This guy has no idea how high tech farming has become. He’s clueless.
How in the heck did this moron...become a millionaire??
If he was as smart as he apparently thinks he is, he would never had made such a comment.
Take's smarts to know...you don't know it all.
dunning kruger writ large...
If you are an American farmer, you DO work in tech. agricultural tech. You get to meld chemistry, biology, mechanical engineering, business, meteorology, etc., etc.
Veterinarian and Pastor wouldn't hurt either.
What'd I forget?
Well, the 'Ratz say they're for the little guy...
Gray matter? Like all of Bloomberg’s lying cheating H1Bs? Check the USCIS website, Bloomberg is a big user of foreign trash
What a fool. Someday mikey ought to take a look at the tools and equipment Farmers utilize every day, but that would require mikey to stop playing with toys in his sandbox.
Give me a break. It’s way harder to be a farmer than a tech worker.
My father, a product of the Great Depression, dropped out of school in the 6th grade to help support his family. In the following years, he produced six sons, learned surveying, learned algebra, read hundreds of books, learned carpentry, auto mechanics, and a host of other skills. He retired as a quality control manager at John Deere Harvester. I am a member of Mensa but confess my father’s intelligence far outstripped, and was more useful, than my own.
Mikie Bloomburg would probably benefit greatly from spending a few weekends with Mike Rowe. Probably wouldn’t make him a better president but at least he wouldn’t be as stupid.
There goes the Farm Belt.
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