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Fabius Minarchus's avatar

China has a government run by STEM majors. We have a government run by lawyers and car dealers.

China has been doing rather well lately...

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JustAnOgre's avatar

It's not just STEM but everything. You in the US at least managed to avoid the bullshit that is called trade school in my neck of Europe. There is a trade school for waiters. They learn how to serve at the most elite diplomatic banquets or how to recommend wine sommelier style. Then they proceed to never doing it.

This isn't even signalling. They are waiters.

This is just the assumption that we have to keep people in schools for whatever reason, and then struggling to fill out the time with something.

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