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Originally Posted by Sregener
We don't need 50,000 people who can invent a wonder drug.
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Beg to differ.
We absolutely need that many and more.
The Gates Foundation for one would happily fund them if they existed.
The issue isn't need but supply.
The US Government alone has been campaigning to get way more women and minorities into engineering and the hard sciences since the 80's to fill the gap between need and availability and more recently the issue has cropped up in the contentious debate over immigration reform.
If we didn't need more high-grade performers in most all fields educational reform wouldn't be a perpetual issue. (I will, however, readily grant the country has a surplus of lawyers and puppetry majors.) But most productive disciplines have a chronic shortage of qualified personnel which is why many businesses happily pay the tuition for employees willing and able to upgrade their skill set. There just aren't enough takers of their offers.