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A couple of years ago it was reported that in 2012 more than half of all American wage earners made less than $30,000 per year. The Social Security Administration's new earnings report for 2014 is out and there's still much gnashing of teeth about the dying middle class. With earnings numbers that haven't changed much in 2 years, estimates running as high as 100 million working age Americans without a job, and no one tracking the population of H-1B visa holders, where are the jobs really?
The July 9, 2015, issue of The New York Review of Books carried a very thoughtful piece by Andrew Hacker. In "The Frenzy About High-Tech Talent," Hacker discusses a number of books and reports that address whether or not there really is a need for more tech talent, the justification for the H-1B visa program, and issues in the American educational system.
[...] Throughout his piece Hacker is basically questioning two things:
1. Is there really an unfilled need for STEM graduates, or are we actually graduating too many so that many end up unemployed or employed in different areas?
2. Are there flaws in the American education system, both at the K-12 level and in college, that lead us to be very dependent on foreign STEM graduates?
[...] The texts Hacker is reviewing, and his own information, seem to dwell predominately on overall job projections for the STEM fields. Nowhere does there appear a breakout of the job forecast for computing related job categories. With the increased ubiquity of computing across all industries and employment sectors, it seems unlikely that we will see the "deskilling" trend that may be occurring in engineering (whereby engineers create equipment that means they and others like them no longer have job opportunities). We know that there are many jobs in the "tech sector" but there are also a lot of computing jobs in banking, finance, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, etc. We can get an accurate picture of future job openings only if we can make a good determination of the computing jobs that exist outside of the "tech sector."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 27 2015, @12:01PM
Clearly the answer is for all of these STEM workers to concentrate on finding more efficiencies at the top, by rendering them redundant. We can invent robots that play golf, tell racy jokes, and repeat random sports scores and voila we will have replaced every CEO in America. Everything else is a very small shell script.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by AnonTechie on Tuesday October 27 2015, @12:31PM
An interesting article related to this discussion:
The strongest weapon to shift geopolitical balances isn’t nukes or missiles, it’s technology [wadhwa.com]
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2015, @01:56PM
Yee haa. A lot of bias in that article. The photos of missiles launching gives an impression of the author.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2015, @08:42PM
Never realized nuclear arms and missiles were organic.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday October 27 2015, @02:08PM
Clearly the answer is for all of these STEM workers to concentrate on finding more efficiencies at the top, by rendering them redundant. We can invent robots that play golf, tell racy jokes, and repeat random sports scores and voila we will have replaced every CEO in America. Everything else is a very small shell script.
We could do that, but we'd spend too long arguing over writing the script in bash or perl or python or ruby or whatever.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 27 2015, @04:13PM
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday October 27 2015, @04:59PM
You mean something like
#!/usr/bin/brainfuck
++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>++>+>->>+[>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.>+.>++.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 27 2015, @06:21PM
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday October 27 2015, @06:45PM
switch((new Random()).nextInt(10) + 1)
{
case 1:
return new Ceo(BASH);
case 2:
return new Ceo(PERL);
case 3:
return new Ceo(PYTHON);
case 4:
return new Ceo(RUBY);
case 5:
return new Ceo(PHP);
case 7:
return new Ceo(JAVASCRIPT);
default:
return new Ceo(BRAINFUCK);
}
Can I have my 30 rupee now?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Tuesday October 27 2015, @09:36PM
Obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
SoylentNews is Bacon! [nueskes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2015, @05:43PM
But will the robots be best buddies with the board, other C-levels, and other boards? Because that's their real "qualifications", just like the feudal barons of old.