• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The damage is done. Unless there’s a sudden reversal of cultural attitudes, the US has given up. The only way I see this happening is if the space race sparks another push for STEM.

    Like, actual STEM. It seems like nobody has noticed but all anybody has cared about anymore is watching the stock market go up. It’s no longer about the pursuit of science and technology but how that can be used to make money.

    They need to land some people on the moon again. Make it a big deal about sci-fi type shit. Orbit space stations around the Earth and the moon. Make it a daily life kind of thing that the population can get engaged with.

    It’s apparent that people are weary of technology anymore cause all we’ve had is brain rot designed to extract value from us. People need to see science and technology as something hopeful again.

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      5 months ago

      With the price of tuition now a days, and an already poor education system as it were, I don’t think the US is getting back to anything.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      Stem jobs are noticeably stagnant as far as they way they hire especially how much bs they pull to keep people form applying online. more often than not your application will never seen by a person, especially with AI in the mix now. even before AI they had software to just randomly screen people anyways. ghost jobs, fake listings in order to have an excuse they cant find anyone, or had hire one with extremely specific skills that they had int he company(like you cant even get those experience in a normal university)

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      5 months ago

      The only way I see this happening is if the space race sparks another push for STEM.

      A major reason the space race resulted in US technological superiority was because they didn’t Gulag former Nazi scientists.

      USA is very much cooked.