[nimbius]

Its difficult to chastise a country that misses the forest for the trees, when that country has spent sixty years formenting a culture of blind consumption and wilful ignorance of anything STEM. instead of a flourishing culture of hacking and computing, the united states through DMCA and law relegated the notion to comic books and hollywood fiction. most of the public war drumming for 'hacking' (if it could be said to exist at all in 2021) is a thinly veiled surrogate of consumerism.

What reason would we have to blame the company for poor security hygene? what possible outcome could we hope for when in 2021 nearly every Solarwinds customer renewed their license after the hack.

[andrewmcwatters]

What are you talking about? The country has spent so much time on STEM, that we have a trade labor shortage.

Please.

[bdangubic]

The reason country is has spent so much time on “STEM” is not that there is a labor shortage but that salaries of “STEM” people are too high and business owners need more people not to fill shortages but to overflow the system such that salaries go down significantly.

There is no shortage of labor for jobs paying high 6-figures … :-)

[stanfordkid]

The problem is our government. There is no shortage of STEM graduates -- we have the best and brightest. Our government has failed to set the right incentives for the private market to innovate on critical infrastructure... so naturally the smartest STEM grads end up building Netflix or Facebook.