We will not be able to compete in the future if most of our smart people refuse to be educated.
We need good STEM people. We do not need a single new diversity studies major.
And for training, that died and is dead.
Take a young person. Train them up with a skill. Give them a hands on education. Invest thousands of dollars and a lot of man hours into them. Then watch them walk out the door for a $0.50 hr raise. Because you are training your competition.
That was the speech given to me by a senior manager once. He was requiring a degree for lab techs, and I was telling him if they can follow a cookie recipe I can teach them the test. He said “Red, if you train our competition I will fire you!”
“most of our smart people refuse to be educated.”
The problem is the the dumb ones blowing a 120k on futile attempts to be educated.