Oh I got that it was sarcasm in the presentation, but it’s also rather true.

Of course, I get that, but there are other careers and sectors of the economy where companies recognize bottom line contributions and are willing to pay. Engineering just isn’t one of them as a rule.

There’s manufacturing engineering jobs in the auto industry in Illinois. Design? Not so much. Just supplier level jobs really.

H1B visa program. They’ve been doing it for decades.

Who’s paying though?

Most people don’t know that engineering in the auto industry, at least mechanical, often means getting stuck doing door handles or sunvisors or water pumps for years if not a career. It’s great for getting cars done quickly but it’s not exactly the exciting engineering career people imagine working for automaker or…

Lots of ME jobs out there. It’s called generically “electronics packaging”. I used to do that sort work. Housings, displays, keypads, switches, buttons, contacts, latches, tons of stuff and its far more involved than anyone outside of it gives it credit for. A thin plastic housing that allows a gizmo to be dropped on…

Exactly. looks normal to me. The mouse is just proof it was an actual barn find.

Your reading comprehension continues to fail you. If you can’t tell the difference between being “part of” and “serving” I can’t help you. Government funding is dependent upon being politically acceptable to one’s patrons, same as it always has.

It’s amazing how you’ve decided what I should be arguing. Sorry you don’t have that privilege. I could go down the tangents of data handling, financing, the corporate-state system, and such. I have done so in the past. You can sift through my gawker history if you’re interested in that. Today I am staying with the…

What I would prefer is irrelevant. What is, is what is. Human society has been this way for at least six thousand years and shows no sign of changing any time soon.

Reading comprehension failure or do you think you’re being clever? What the ruling class has desired to control over the last 6000 years remains the same. Back then people obeyed and sacrificed because the priests told them that if they didn’t the spring rains wouldn’t come and the crops would fail and they would die…

What do those with, who want, and who influence political and/or economic power want to control? The same things people have sought to control for at least six thousand years.

Of course it is, but there are far too many people who would rather see stuff destroyed than it to pass into hands of people who can use it.

Indeed, the rental economy. You own nothing peasant. It’s one big company town where you work for the privilege to keep living. A hole of payments you can never dig yourself out of. That’s the future. You won’t have a private passenger automobile unless you can afford the kind the wealthy can and maybe not even then…

Why? It’s rather self evident at this point.

I ride a bicycle in traffic and the most offensive vehicles left on the road are government owned transit buses. Compared to the way things were today is nothing. About the only place that still smells like Chicago did in the 70s is tunnel at McCormick place where the bus exhaust and cigarette smoke gets concentrated.

A…

Since you didn’t understand it, I’ll try presenting it another way:

Your elected dear leaders and those that purchase them and the unelected bureaucrats. You know, the people who write laws and regulations and get them passed.

There are actually people in the world who find it horrible that flood damaged and otherwise totaled or just plain old cars from the USA end up in places where people want cheap wheels. Considering this fire truck was retired for not meeting some modern safety requirement it’s rather amazing it got out of their grip…