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by yokisan
3425 days ago
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> There's nothing stopping those people from getting an education and joining a big tech company. "There's nothing stopping somebody from the ghetto from getting an education and joining a big tech company". In both cases, sadly there is. And I think what the OP is suggesting ("for every immigrant a tech company imports, they must hire two rural American workers") is a step towards remedying this. |
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If you read further, I state the obvious: "The one exception is maybe lack of access to higher education. And the GOP is an odd choice if that's your primary problem..."
> And I think what the OP is suggesting ("for every immigrant a tech company imports, they must hire two rural American workers") is a step towards remedying this
Huh?
Google et al. already do this. If you're a competent programmer, you can find a tech job. Tech companies don't discriminate against rural hires...
Is your suggestion that Google should hire a bunch of completely untrained and totally unqualified rural folk as software engineers, purely because they're from a rural part of the country, and train them on sight?
Wouldn't improving K12 STEM education and making college more accessible make a lot more sense? Google isn't a school, and education isn't their core competency.
It's one thing to say "we should be more supportive of STEM education and make college more accessible".
It's completely another to insist that Google over-look college educated immigrants because some rural Americans weren't given the opportunity to attend an IIT.