Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car

• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  where our education systems can compete favorably

  LOL are you sure about that?

  worldatlas.com/…/the-highest-literacy-rates-in-th…

  China ranks higher than the USA in literacy rates

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, but the US has a lot of well-educated people (e.g. see the Education Index), as well as a lot of opportunities for well-educated people to get in-demand jobs that pay well.

    Literacy rates are interesting, but they don’t translate to well-paying jobs like education attainment rates.

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    • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, but the US has a lot of well-educated people (e.g. see the Education Index), as well as a lot of opportunities for well-educated people to get in-demand jobs that pay well.

      There are more Indian Engineers in the USA than American ones… and Trump is destroying all of it

      The way things are going for you, nobody with a half a choice would decide to migrate to the USA for work

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right, and that’s completely brain-dead. We should be wanting to attract more talent, because more people able to take high-end jobs usually ends up creating more high-end jobs. We want more immigrant engineers, doctors, etc, because that encourages greater investment since the labor pool is deeper.

        But no, we’ll instead block cheap imports and encourage more blue-collar work, and if we take that too far, we’ll end up in a similar situation as we did back in the Great Depression when demand just evaporates.

        We should let developing countries develop and focus on what developed countries are better at: innovation. Attract top talent and keep investment dollars flowing so the R&D jobs stay.

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean, what is the reason those Indian engineers chose the US over India?

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  LOL losers

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  • Hardeehar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hold on, in advanced education here in my area of the states, almost half the population of students in classes I see are of Chinese or Indian backgrounds and most are here on foreign visas.

    If the education is so shit, why are there so many foreign students studying here and paying insane amounts of money to do so.

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    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ‘Chinese or Indian backgrounds’ so not Chinese.
      China leads in 95% of STEM and they’re only getting better and widening the gap.
      The US has a handful of good Ivy league institutions (invariably using foreign professors and braindrain), the general level is mediocre at best.

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      • Hardeehar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yup and paying insane amounts of money to get in, too.

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    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d think enrollment rates would be a severe lagging indicator of education quality. Institutions could likely coast on reputation for quite some time after education quality tanks. Inertia is powerful, and some could even knowingly decide to go to poor educational institutions just for the status it still gives among peers and in their community.

      That said, I have no first hand experience with US higher education, and wouldn’t know what the quality really is, just saying that enrollment rates probably aren’t a great indicator of it.

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      • Hardeehar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        True, I would argue though that after a certain amount of time, nobody even cares about the quality, it’s the university name on the degree that is truly important.

        You can go anywhere on the planet even decades from now and say you’re from Harvard (take your pick) and you’ll be regarded as a knowledge god even if you were the last in the class to graduate.

        Educational quality isn’t everything for getting into a good career, it’s the reputation, and that is what schools in the US (and a few abroad) have in spades.

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