From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 21:47:39 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Yikes!
If my experience, and the opinions voiced to me by my classmates, about
6-7 years ago are an anectodtal clue, part of the thing is that we'd
rather build the future than profess about it. Which means industry
over academia. Add in concerns over jobs (and pay rates, but mostly
just jobs) for physicists, astronomers, et cetera as opposed to
unskilled jobs (and pay rates) - especially with (at least in the US)
the concern that companies would rather shop abroad and save 50% on
skilled intellectual labor rather than hire US citizens (and lie through
their teeth when applying for the visas, despite ample evidence that
equally skilled US citizens are available for almost any job even if
they are used to higher wages == less profit/salary for the executives)
- and public aversion to science in general, and that probably at least
begins to explain this.
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