Posted on 02/17/2020 5:34:50 AM PST by richardtavor
Democratic president candidate Michael Bloomberg drew mockery from both sides of the ideological spectrum after a viral clip of him showed the billionaire media tycoon belittling farming at a 2016 business school talk and contrasting it with the “gray matter” necessary to work in the modern information economy.
Bloomberg’s 2016 comments during a sit-down discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School gained attention after a Twitter account with the handle, Pete Mentes, posted a one-minute snippet of the former New York City mayor — who has never farmed — claiming “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.
“It’s a process,” he went on to say, referring to the agrarian economy 300 years ago, “you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.” He then said working in the modern information economy 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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No. I just saw the headline, which presented it as a quotation.
Nope his idea of technology is a cell phone,computer and a electric can opener and how to ring room service.
Try living without food and a roof over yr head.
On the one hand Republicans tell me not to worry where my tires, car parts, TV, computers and almost everything I buy is made ( mostly not made in the USA ) but somehow I should give sh!t where the ear of corn I am about to eat is grown? Why?
Farmers ( 0.8% of GDP )need to get real jobs. Bloomberg is an idiot but he was right about farming. Farming is ghetto.
I’d like to see this moron attempt to grow beans in his backyard—actually him and not some paid minion.
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