I saw Stanford's nurses ever more overworked and underpaid.
I see the same where I live in The Netherlands, Europe. Nurses complain about reduced hours, increased administrative load, fewer colleagues, reduced time per patient, reduced opportunities. The worst is the schedule uncertainty: they learn only days before when they are allowed to work. Not knowing your hours is very hard to combine with raising children. Interestingly there was an increase in all of these factors early 2020.
pasty-faced software "bros" tech titan-tyrant-geeks who had usually no skills in math or biology whatsoever.
Those who get rich in software tend to have no software skills whatsoever. They can't retrieve a row from a database, open a file, or commit to source control. Their idea of how working software is born is not even right or wrong, it's an unrelated mental spectacle. Technical skills are not substantive to success.
If you visit a university city in Asia, you will find skilled mathematicians who live in relative poverty. Their skills are far beyond what goes for mathematics in Western universities. I think this disparity is relatively young. I examined some Dutch exams from the 1950s, and back then our universities were much more selective than they are now.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Thanks for sharing your experience!
I see the same where I live in The Netherlands, Europe. Nurses complain about reduced hours, increased administrative load, fewer colleagues, reduced time per patient, reduced opportunities. The worst is the schedule uncertainty: they learn only days before when they are allowed to work. Not knowing your hours is very hard to combine with raising children. Interestingly there was an increase in all of these factors early 2020.
Those who get rich in software tend to have no software skills whatsoever. They can't retrieve a row from a database, open a file, or commit to source control. Their idea of how working software is born is not even right or wrong, it's an unrelated mental spectacle. Technical skills are not substantive to success.
If you visit a university city in Asia, you will find skilled mathematicians who live in relative poverty. Their skills are far beyond what goes for mathematics in Western universities. I think this disparity is relatively young. I examined some Dutch exams from the 1950s, and back then our universities were much more selective than they are now.