small thread on human capital
In addition to NYers fun site design/cute artwork, this stood out:
"Two colleges in Pyongyang..often outperform American and Chinese colleges in the International Collegiate Programming Contest—a festival of **unsurpassed and joyful nerdery**."
there is a baseline of quantitative/logical knowhow that separates cognitively gifted people from the average—and a degree of grit, the ability to suffer with a purpose...and a canny, cunning nature, that separates the merely academically competent from real *killers*.
None of us are going to stop North Korea's cyber hackers. Again, ignore the news for what it is/The USA is over, etc. but look at this;
mfa.gov.sg/Career/Career-…
If you're an American nationalist (tough break, kid) or just want to do right by some swathe of people:
Universities are hugely discredited, but still the default as a route to traditional routes of employment particularly outside of non-licensed medical work
mechanistically;
There's no good reward function for huge, huge groups of American youth who could apply themselves
- money (which can also confer;)
- social esteem (which can come from;)
- provision for a family
- role in a bigger community
We could create that, couldn't we?
aren't the PMC/McKinsey types absolutely loathesome? right now, they have all of the prestige, money, and social pull—but how long? even The Economist knows it is not long for this world
economist.com/business/2021/…
undermanned—too evil to even get involved in non-kinetic stuff? okay then;armytimes.com/news/your-army…
undermannedcarparts.com/blog/mechanic-…
dont like physically moving yourself/are fat & happy?
undermannedcnbc.com/2019/11/06/how…
Take an industry ('tech' is too broad)
1. map out its entry level skills/certs/competencies
2. teach young people how to do it
3. place them
4. (this isn't sequential); make it MORE prestigious, valuable, acceptable to the student and parent than college or low skill work
4. is the absolute hardest part
3. a very close second, but if you do enough of it, 4 will get easier
1. & 2. are an absolute delight—get going
3.5 million HS kids graduate every year; if you can stop 10 of them from getting saddled with debt, you've changed ten lives forever
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