{"id":541,"date":"2012-02-02T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:44:34","slug":"i-am-not-sure-i-buy-all-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/02\/i-am-not-sure-i-buy-all-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not sure I buy all of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;education crisis&#8221; myth<br \/>\nIgnore the media spin. Wages and working conditions &#8212; not skills &#8212; are the real reasons jobs get outsourced<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/30\/the_education_crisis_myth\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/30\/the_education_crisis_myth\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my experience our educational system is quite dysfunctional and apparently incapable of churning out people with critical thinking skills, but the article makes a very persuasive case that that reality is independent of our jobs being shipped overseas.  The author seems a wee bit negative, but I am not being sarcastic, I think it is only a wee bit.  Clearly it won&#8217;t take a lot for manufacturing to be cheaper in the US again, with our crashed economy, I just hope that doesn&#8217;t come at the expense of a living wage (note that in most of the country, you can still live very nicely (if debt free) off of $10 an hour, if you get full benefits) and safe working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A friend in the IT &#8216;biz is fond of pointing out that there is no shortage of IT people, there is a &#8216;shortage&#8217; of IT people willing to work at the pay being offered by the companies complaining that there is an IT shortage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;education crisis&#8221; myth Ignore the media spin. Wages and working conditions &#8212; not skills &#8212; are the real reasons jobs get outsourced http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/30\/the_education_crisis_myth\/singleton\/ In my experience our educational system is quite dysfunctional and apparently incapable of churning out people with critical thinking skills, but the article makes a very persuasive case that that reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/02\/i-am-not-sure-i-buy-all-of-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am not sure I buy all of it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}