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To: fishtank

Unfortunately, there is a viscious cycle...

If you want a technical culture from which to hire, you need technical parents to bear future technical children (mostly). However, the companies pay technical people jackshit wages and do next to nothing to cultivate and train the engineers they have. Technical guy with poor wages knocks up technical gal, can’t pay for family becuase the f’ing corporations are so greedy and cheap he can’t earn enough money, she aborts...end of story.

Meantime, they can’t resist pressing down on tech wages with H whatever visas. It’s pathetic and they talk out of both sides of their mouths.


22 posted on 03/04/2008 12:17:05 PM PST by bioqubit
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To: bioqubit

I’ve written “Raising an Engineer”, on Amazon.com, a humorous essay on this very concept.


26 posted on 03/04/2008 12:25:32 PM PST by tbw2 ("Humanity's Edge" - conservative Sci-fi - on amazon.com)
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To: bioqubit

“Technical guy with poor wages knocks up technical gal, can’t pay for family becuase the f’ing corporations are so greedy and cheap he can’t earn enough money, she aborts...end of story.”

I cannot buy your explanation here. It’s all wrong.


29 posted on 03/04/2008 12:37:36 PM PST by fishtank (Fenced BORDERS, English LANGUAGE, Patriotic CULTURE: A good plan.)
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