[Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"

[Richard Santalesa]

If I was Thanos I’d say “ending the tech industries’ amazing ‘nowism’ … that there was never a good software idea or concept in the past…” 

 

As for STEM, disagree. We produce plenty of STEM  students… when the salaries markedly rise THEN we’ll know that we don’t have enough. I remember stories of physicists and engineers in NYC driving cabs when I was a kid.  And know of plenty of “STEM” people who can’t find jobs because job descriptions and “required” skills listed for positions are so narrow today that there’s no wonder there’s a perceived “shortage”

 

From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Andy Patrizio
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 7:46 PM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"

 

We’re gonna get kicked to -pol for this…

 

We don’t produce enough STEM students because we don’t encourage it. I’ve read that in China they ration financial aid and focus on STEM majors. We should do the same here. The idea of funding a kid to get an English Lit degree at a $70k liberal arts school is asinine. You want to be a data scientist? Ok, we’ll pay for that.

 

And yeah, Amazon paying zero taxes is sickening.

 

From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Brian Santo
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 11:44 AM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"

 

US companies spending almost as much time figuring out clever schemes to avoid paying taxes as they do on producing goods/services, and then whining that underfunded US schools are failing at graduating enough STEM talent. 

 

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:32 AM Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com> wrote:

Concentration in a limited, absurdly expensive part of the country

Rampant ageism and, remarkably, sexism

Political extremism that literally runs people out of companies

Wasting money on products in search of a solution

Willfully creating products known to have a negative societal impact

Complete and utter disregard for consumer privacy

A press completely unwilling to take on the industry for all of the above

 

I’m sorry did you say one?

 

From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Perlow, Jason
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 8:43 AM
To: IPG List <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
Subject: [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"

 

"If I was Thanos"

If you could snap your fingers and change anything about the tech industry, what would you change?

 

Crowdsourcing this for a gallery. And yes, it has to be limited to the tech industry. But it could be anything.

 

-- 

JASON PERLOW

Sr. Technology Editor, ZDNet


Voice/Text (561)510-0063
 <mailto:jperlow at gmail.com> jperlow at gmail.com
ZDNet Tech Broiler:  <http://www.techbroiler.com/> www.techbroiler.com

Socialize Me: Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/jperlow>  | Instag <http://www.instagram.com/jasonperlow> ram <http://www.instagram.com/jasonperlow>  | FaceBook <https://www.facebook.com/techperlow>  | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonperlow>  | 

 

-- 
Ipg-smz mailing list
Ipg-smz at netpress.org
http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://netpress.org/pipermail/ipg-smz_netpress.org/attachments/20190430/01a7a019/attachment-0001.html>