Democratic presidential rival and Joe Biden has some advice for the recently disrupted : learn to programme .
At a rally in Derry , New Hampshire on Monday , per theWashington Post ’s Dave Weigel , Biden peach about how unemployed miner and coal workers who have lose their jobs in recent years can get “ job of the future ” if they “ learn to programme . ” Referencing his role in a Barack Obama - eraprogramming skills initiativein schools , Biden commented that “ Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as Inferno discover to programme as well … Anybody who can throw ember into a furnace can ascertain how to program , for God ’s rice beer ! ”
But Biden returns to the same point : " Anybody who can throw off ember into a furnace can hear how to program , for God ’s rice beer ! "
Yeah, you! You over there! There’s still a surprisingly large demand for people who know COBOL!Photo: Scott Eisen (Getty Images)
— David Weigel ( @daveweigel)December 30 , 2019
What , exactly , these blue neckband doer in the minelaying and ember - shoveling sector should find out to code is unclear . ADecember jobs reportby Challenger , Gray , & Christmas chance that the mining andtech sectorsare both shedding thousands of jobsnationwide . ( So too iseverything coal - related . ) It ’s sightly to say the long - terminal figure vista for IT workers are better , with theBureau of Labor Statistics projectingthat computer and information applied science problem will raise “ 12 percentage from 2018 to 2028 , much quicker than the norm for all job . ” Meanwhile , marked-up vim Job aredying leave and rightdespite Donald Trump ’s best feat to trounce regulations .
But the issue has less to do with whether programming is a worthy skillset — it is , in the same sense that utter Arabic or have a headmaster ’s degree in mechanical engineering science are desirable skillsets . To Biden ’s point , there areplenty of succeeder stories , includingwith laid - off mineworker . This rather has more to do with whether everyone has the desire or aptitude to learn programming to plunge into anultra - competitory job marketfor developers , whether job retrain programsare actually effectiveor will be adequately funded , or whether advising someone to just get a much more moneymaking job in a high - tech sector in reality comes across as helpful .
Anyone can learn to cipher , and I ’m happy to see realization that you do n’t need to be in your 20s to do this as a professing .
But Biden telling coal miner , “ Just move to high technical school ! ” is so tone - deaf and unhelpful.https://t.co/WIztRdMFkD
— Brianna Wu ( @BriannaWu)December 30 , 2019
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I would honestly make love to hear more from Biden as to what he thinks we as software engineer do . While quite a few miner could learn to write in code , they would face many challenge and obstruction in doing so . It would not be a piffling vocation change.https://t.co/luQVKNlFha
— Sampson ( @jonathansampson)December 31 , 2019
As Weigel noted , being told what you really need to do is pivot man to making smartphone apps or coding a payroll system caninstead come acrossascallous indifferenceto the what is presently happening to workers right now . ( Especially so , given the hereafter isnot synonymous with STEM jobsand the gap disconnect between how the tech sector generate wealthiness and how itdoesn’t reallyshare it . ) That ’s exactly why “ learn to code ” became the far rightfield ’s taunting of choice whenmocking laid - off diarist . Maybe , uhh , nip this particular line in the bud and instead focus on theinfrastructure , clean Department of Energy , andlabor organizing poppycock .
In any case , as far as lukewarm technocratic estimation go , Biden is at least bring home the bacon out over fellow popular candidate Mike Bloomberg , who nip on Monday that if elect he would put thedisastrous undefendable office modelin burden at the White House .
As chairperson , I ’ll turn the East Room into an open position plan , where I ’ll sit with our squad .
I ’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions – never for tweeting – but the rest of the prison term , I ’ll be where a leader should be : with the team.https://t.co/zIU3ZL5uIvpic.twitter.com/jLwWKJCmxw
— Mike Bloomberg ( @MikeBloomberg)December 30 , 2019
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