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The problem with "guess they don't want jobs" argument is that Google is not like Ford Motor Company. When they move into your town and your rents double you ca
by cyphunk 8y ago
The problem with "guess they don't want jobs" argument is that Google is not like Ford Motor Company. When they move into your town and your rents double you can't just be retrained. When a company that requires special skills moves in they kick people that do not have those skills out.
- antt 8y ago>When they move into your town and your rents double you can't just be retrained. Why?
- Sargos 8y agoIt's not a politically correct thing to say but most people aren't smart enough to work in tech. It's a fairly top tier field unless you're doing something really, really basic.
- wallflower 8y agoAnd not everyone working in tech has to work at a FAANG. Or wants to even try to pass their hiring interviews. There is plenty of work for utility programmers like me in all industries. Yes, you won’t be able to humble brag about your salary but we all do pretty well relative to the median.
- antt 8y agoI fundamentally disagree. The only reason why tech is hard to get into is because tech education is so terrible that teaching someone to use Word is what passes for IT. Something that makes as much sense as writing dotted lines with chalk as a prerequisite for mathematics.
- cyphunk 8y agoIt's not about being smart enough. It's about time required to retrain and the cost to do so. Until Google, or PeidPeiper, have a on-job training program sufficient enough that they can walk into every Shop of Kreutzberg and say "here, we we'll teach you the skills you need just come work for us" -- we should assume their setting up shop will displace a ton of people. Until those companies add to that "and we'll pay your cost of living until you transition" their movement into a neighborhood should perceived as a Tax by the state.