When the hi-tech company I work for has a conference call with an American one, all the engineers we speak with are Indians, or Chinese Or Iranians or Israelis or anything but wasps. That's probably because studying engineering is damn hard for some, and if you can earn just as much studying history than why would you ? I'm can't be sure I would.
So, the next generation will wise up and study more engineering, natural sciences, agriculture, mining and all the other stuff that made the US a great place in the first place.
Speaking as an Anglo-American with a degree in natural sciences, I'd love to work in my field - but not if it means a 40% pay cut. American schools graduate ever-increasing numbers of "wasp" scientists and engineers, but most never even work in the field because they're all working jobs that pay more than science and engineering does. Why should I work as a scientist, when I can make more money doing something else? "Passion", as I have sometimes seen that question answered, won't feed my family, pay my rent/mortgage, etc.
The fact of the matter is that America doesn't actually pay scientists and engineers what it (supposedly) values them at.
But hey, that's globalization for ya.
5 Ways We (gen X) Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation
- 27/11/2011 08:26:47 AM
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This article both pisses me off and makes me want to spend more time outdoors. *NM*
- 27/11/2011 09:26:58 AM
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Is gen x people who grew up in the 80's?
- 27/11/2011 12:48:35 PM
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Wikipedia gives a lose definition of people born between the early 60s to the early 80s. *NM*
- 27/11/2011 01:46:04 PM
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It's really mostly correct, and also highlights why OWS was a total failure.
- 27/11/2011 05:44:15 PM
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The whole concept of 'Generation' is a near total fiction
- 27/11/2011 08:49:28 PM
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Well, thank you for that explanation about cousins, yes. 
- 27/11/2011 09:41:57 PM
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- 27/11/2011 09:41:57 PM
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I always like to include useful pieces of trivia in my rants, like a lollipop from the dentist
- 27/11/2011 11:17:17 PM
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- 27/11/2011 11:17:17 PM
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I disagree, but think generational influences are often oversimplified.
- 28/11/2011 02:14:07 AM
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I like that you're citing that your citing the stuff I was clearly staring at in my own post
- 28/11/2011 04:33:57 AM
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- 28/11/2011 04:33:57 AM
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Well, without a cite there is no way to know if we are looking at the same stuff.
- 28/11/2011 06:27:29 AM
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It's more of a humorus aside, one of my drafts linked the graph
- 28/11/2011 07:21:34 AM
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Yeah, I just thought you were taking a more absolutist position than you did.
- 28/11/2011 09:05:08 PM
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John Cheese is an ass. His weekly column on a humor website is full of this crap
- 29/11/2011 02:09:45 AM
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There's an irritatingly large amount of that on Cracked these days, or even The Onion
- 29/11/2011 03:11:37 AM
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I wouldn't be putting the blame on Generation X. People have been screwing up the next generation
- 27/11/2011 09:54:30 PM
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So pretty much each succeeding generation of humanity is worse off 
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- 28/11/2011 01:27:31 AM
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- 28/11/2011 01:27:31 AM
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Nah. Nature compensates in some unfathomable way to keep us from going to hell in a handbasket. 
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- 01/12/2011 01:16:02 AM
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- 01/12/2011 01:16:02 AM
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How is it anyone's fault ?
- 27/11/2011 11:24:53 PM
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Basically, because there was no reason it had to get in line with the rest of the world.
- 28/11/2011 02:40:46 AM
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Re: How is it anyone's fault ?
- 28/11/2011 01:29:13 PM
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