You don't, the job market is one big lie. There is no loyalty. Try to get the most money and best position. Make yourself look as good as possible without looking unbelievable.
It's not worth it. The insurance you want to provide is not sustainable. Or if you think it is the make the company and compete. The other option are these dealers shutting down and now no one has a source of income.
I would say sending rockets to space is currently orthogonal with current issues we are facing as a species. A decade ago, I would have said the big issue was finding a way to live without destroying ecosystems, but apparently finding a way to live without a major war is also a hot topic now.
Education can't be standardized because business is not standardized. It's about relationships and every shop does things their own way. Teachers should just go contract and provide their own courses. The degree is really can't designate what the person knows.
There is a lot of value to standardizing things though. Most of what people need to learn is standard. 2+2, i before e... There is the more nebulous step of can you solve problems, but even that is taught at the lower levels in a standard way.
Eventually you get to a level where the answer hasn't been taught much and so there is no standard, but that only happens late in your education.
Of course education itself needs more research. "learning styles" was debunked last I heard, but is there some variation that says some people need different teaching? Is there a better way to teach things? However if you are not involved in this research you should be teaching in standard ways that have been proven to work.
I strongly disagree. Commodification of education is very important. I want everyone to have the commodity reading writing arithmetic education. It might be faster for the student to give one on one teaching, but everyone needs this and I want it such a commodity that we give it to even the poorest "third world" kids who have nothing.
As you get beyond those basics you have to become an expert in something that there are few experts in. McDonald's success is mostly based on their ability to take you from zero to a productive crew member fast. It takes many years to make a brain surgeon, in large part because we haven't commodified it - if we needed more we should (but since the world doesn't really need many it isn't worth it)
The internet was great, everything we did with it in the last 20 years with it was the mistake. Collimating in a comment that blogspam can now be one of the positive notes in the hellscape we are building.
The internet IS great.
The problem is similar to everything else in the world: the ratio of idiots to smart people using it is widely in favor of the idiots and they get to influence where it goes, how it operates and many other things.
In other words, democracy sucks but we have not found something so much better that it would pay for the benefit of freedom for everyone...
It won't be long until AI makes spelling, grammar and usage errors, if it's trained on things like message boards where people still don't know the difference between were, we're and where, lose vs. loose, affect vs. effect and wary vs. weary.
It's always a good time to be an engineer. These public comps are more recruitment and training. It's not like new discoveries are made during these events. It's partly a party for the industry.
