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The American Tech Dilemma: Unfilled Jobs, Few Workers, Lack of Confidence in STEM Education
MacTech ^ | 10/21/2020

Posted on 10/25/2020 4:02:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/25/2020 4:02:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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You have no one to blame but yourself, American Tech Companies, because you been supporting the party that has been instrumental in destroying the educational system in this country.


2 posted on 10/25/2020 4:09:32 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (I)
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Another contributing factor could be that many stem educated people may not want to work for one of these woke companies and have to alter their entire belief system. I believe alphabet interviews on not only skills but social beliefs and attitudes. If you aren’t woke enough you don’t get hired and that is probably attributed to lack of skills.


3 posted on 10/25/2020 4:11:39 PM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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Go to college, get a STEM degree, and get a job where you train the Indian H1B visa holders who will replace your department in six months.


4 posted on 10/25/2020 4:12:25 PM PDT by Shadow44
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Not to mention wanting to hire H1-B workers instead of US workers.


5 posted on 10/25/2020 4:12:38 PM PDT by rstrahan
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Well gosh....I guess they will have to increase wages and implement training programs like American companies used to have.

If there is a shortage, the price goes up, this attracts more competitors to enter the market (in this case workers) and that eliminates the shortage. That’s how free markets work.


6 posted on 10/25/2020 4:12:44 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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They want American kids to be dumb.

Then they go lobby for more h1b visas and hire foreigners.

Most HR managers from SV are Indian, and favor hiring foreigners.


7 posted on 10/25/2020 4:12:50 PM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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The snartest youngsters avoid stem majors because they can see how many “American“ Corporations hire foreigners instead.


8 posted on 10/25/2020 4:14:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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I run into plenty of dumb as a lifestyle.

Had my share of dumb moments but I tried to learn.


9 posted on 10/25/2020 4:15:58 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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Yeah that too. 8>)


10 posted on 10/25/2020 4:16:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Why would anyone want to study engineering, the hardest of all disciplines, when the ruling class, democrat and Republican alike, are giving these jobs to aliens, or laying them off when they turn forty?

Better to party in college then get a job in politics like the Biden kids.

Meanwhile, the technical knowledge that won a world war, nuclear energy, and put a man on the moon is going to China and India. And the Biden’s and Bushes and that ilk are doing well.


11 posted on 10/25/2020 4:21:02 PM PDT by oldbill
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RE: Better to party in college then get a job in politics like the Biden kids.

Not everyone can be children of Vice Presidents...


12 posted on 10/25/2020 4:22:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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If you are a white male why would you go to work for a US tech company? They will put you in a team, them promote and reward someone else on the team for your ideas.


13 posted on 10/25/2020 4:24:04 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmk for my 17 yr old grand daughter. Thanks for posting.


14 posted on 10/25/2020 4:34:54 PM PDT by SanchoP
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Big Tech and Big Edu give ZERO fvks about Americans born and raised here to live their god given right to live the American dream. The left is the American hating nightmare.


15 posted on 10/25/2020 4:37:36 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Programming is one of those jobs that will be eliminated by AI. AI recently beat a human pilot 5 - 0 at topgun in a simulated F-18 combat faceoff. AI, is increasingly being untilized to write code which will enhance AI. Imagine, AI now has the ability to “correct” any issues it believes are negatively impacting it.

The entire reason the Chinese are vacuuming up all the data they can get their hands on, is to enhance their AI capabilities. The more data AI has, the more accurate, and the better it becomes. The country with the largest data sets, will have the best AI.

The country with the best AI will win the next war, which appears to already be underway, in an asymmetrical sense. It’s a shame there are so few who recognize the war has begun. Whoever harnesses AI, will only be able to do so, for a limited time, as it will ingest it’s masters last.


16 posted on 10/25/2020 4:49:25 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: oldbill

a job in politics ... or “marketing,” like me!


17 posted on 10/25/2020 5:02:27 PM PDT by qwertyz
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The indians now have completely taken over the tech recruitment business, in the US, over the last year. This is moving rapidly. American computer workers are screwed.


18 posted on 10/25/2020 5:12:32 PM PDT by jroehl
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Have you gone to a high school graduation recently, when they show the top ranked students in the program, it’s very eye-opening.


19 posted on 10/25/2020 5:14:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I was born in 1954 and I can tell you that my high school education back then is BETTER than a BA today!! These people come out of college IDIOTS and have no work ethic!!


20 posted on 10/25/2020 5:16:56 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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