General Discussion

"Eradicating the woke mind virus from higher education may be a justifiable political goal"

There is nothing justifiable about a made up significance for a common word. This is BS republicans have made into a meme that people with very little brain repeat to think they are being smart. Not even the people who have written about "woke" have a consensus of what it means, besides of course "just having woke up".

Its going to get worst because republicans goal is to make the USA a very ignorant country, it already is, but they want more, 30% is not enough for them.

Outsourcing is part guilty for what is happening, the USA has exported technology and knowledge to other countries just to make more money, but eventually it would byte because once you loose the "know-how" you are at the mercy of those who know. The "Pan-Am Effect", fly now, pay later...well, now China, India, etc. have began charging more and the "savings" are no longer what they used to be.

Thomas Friedman wrote a book in favour of outsourcing a few years ago, and to me it was ironic how he could not understand the conversation he had with a man from India who owned a Tech company that was making a ton of money from USA outsourced projects, he spelled it out for him. The man said "at this time India is behind the USA in technology, but we are learning fast and the time will come when we will be ahead, and then the real money will begin to pour in." I am paraphrasing, of course but, you get the idea.

I have seen outsourcing at work, and for the most part it is a nightmare, the code has to be cleaned up when it is delivered back to USA, the cost, and time of the resources needed to do that sometimes outweighs the "savings" expected from it. I have seen companies close their outsourcing efforts because in the long run, it becomes too expensive, and some people do understand that it drains the brain power from the USA.