Editing Labor Shortages (section)

=== 2019 ===

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|content=Nothing would be better for the United States than a 50 year dire [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] without a drop of “legislative relief.” This will never happen. Nevertheless, it’s important to laugh at industries pretending to believe in labor shortages in mkt economies with wage mechanisms.
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|content=US Job Opening Soar To All Time High: 800K More Than Unemployed Workers https://zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/us-job-opening-soar-all-time-high-800k-more-unemployed-workers
|timestamp=3:19 PM · Feb 12, 2019
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|timestamp=3:25 PM · Feb 12, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=What we need is a multi-decade  [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] in STEM that brings technical employers howling in pain about employee wage demands. Family demands. Maternal demands.
The answer is simple: in STEM the wrong people are in pain. It should be our beloved administrators &amp; employers.
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|content=This is the elephant in the lab.

A secret reason (which we collected anonymously multiple times at NBER/ASCB) for delaying tenure decisions beyond healthy fertility is departmental fear of committing to top women in research for fear they will find motherhood more fulfilling.
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|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
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|content=Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child
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|timestamp=11:33 AM · Feb 26, 2019
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|timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019
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|content=You can blame the Principal Investigators who told us this (both male &amp; female). You can blame the universities. You can blame the messenger. But we need to talk about getting STEM moms a LOT more money for help in the house &amp; make more allowances for staying home for 5-10 years.
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019
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|content=And yes, Dads can be more present. But before you go too far down that road, consider that some of the STEM women we spoke to said that they would have WANTED to be at home, particularly with little children (&lt;7) and what they really wanted was a way back to research afterwards.
|timestamp=4:10 PM · Feb 26, 2019
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|timestamp=4:17 PM · Feb 26, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The extractive structures suffused throughout Higher Ed are on death watch for collapse:

Grant Overhead</br>
Student Debt Slavery</br>
Far Above Inflation Tuition Hikes</br>
Administrator Displacement of Profs</br>
Prestige Journal Premiums</br>
[[Labor Shortages|Labor reclassified as “Training”]]

https://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-System/245798
|timestamp=9:32 PM · Mar 1, 2019
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|name=Dr Darren Saunders
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|content=We are our so often own worst enemies
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We’ve been lying about a shortage of scientists continuously since Sputnik. We have too many scientists relative to our anemic level of interest in paying for the basic research that created our modern economy.

Why do we believe a &gt;60YO lie? Because of who tells it.

Scientists.
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|name=Dr Darren Saunders
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|content=Job opportunities for science graduates have failed to match the push to get more students to study science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM).
https://smh.com.au/business/workplace/glut-in-demand-for-science-graduates-challenges-stem-hype-20190327-p517zj.html
|timestamp=10:26 PM · Apr 13, 2019
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|timestamp=3:07 PM · Apr 14, 2019
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|name=Dr Darren Saunders
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|content=Interesting that so many assume this is referring to US situation. I guess the problem is widespread
|timestamp=5:30 AM · Apr 14, 2019
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|content=@whereisdaz It’s originally driven by the US and the Cold War. But it spread to every developed nation with a decent scientific research enterprise. It’s now world wide as a problem.
|timestamp=6:31 AM · Apr 15, 2019
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|timestamp=7:21 AM · Apr 15, 2019
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|content=The tweet quoted was apparently deleted. It asked why scientists would want to glut their own market and drive wages down. The answer is that we glut the bottom of the pyramid and make sure that those people used to glut the entry never reach the top of the pyramid to compete.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=We train undergraduates in STEM. That gives science professors a salary. Then as graduate students, profs make them teach &amp; do their research work while denying they’re workers. Then as post-docs we ‘apprentice’ them for more extraction.

Then after multiple PDs we push them out.
https://x.com/locoono2/status/1117450902946729985
|timestamp=3:42 PM · Apr 14, 2019
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|timestamp=3:46 PM · Apr 14, 2019
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|content=Want to follow an unsung hero?

Norm has been fighting the lies of the academy as a STEM professor for years. There were times in the ‘90s when it felt like he and I plus 2 folks at the Sloan foundation were the only STEM PhDs who hadn’t been zombified by the STEM shortage myth.
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|name=Norm Matloff
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|content=Some years ago, some grad students sued UC, claiming they were workers. Then someone from my campus administration ordered faculty to disagree. Yes, you read this right. Of course, we just ignored them.
|timestamp=3:50 PM · Apr 14, 2019
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|timestamp=4:02 PM · Apr 14, 2019
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|content=And why wouldn’t politicians want to please rich STEM donors rather than poorer STEM workers??

But that’s so cynical I’m told. So....let’s forget the whole supply and demand thing and go back once again to concern for the marginalized groups we want to lure into the pipeline...
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|content=Pipeline = [[Labor Shortages|“push out the supply labor curve”]] to make wages FALL.

Wouldn’t you want to push up the Demand Curve to make talent crazy expensive and want STEM employers in pain so they would hire every competent soul?

Politicians/employers always get this wrong. Huh. I Wonder why.
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|name=Kamala Harris
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|content=Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ Americans are often underrepresented in STEM jobs. Fixing the problem starts with investing in our classrooms. That is why I’ve introduced a bill to build a pipeline of diverse talent for these good-paying jobs.
|timestamp=11:20 PM · May 3, 2019
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|timestamp=11:32 PM · May 3, 2019
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|name=Fusilli Spock
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|content=Why wouldn't an employer want to increase the pipeline?  It's 100% in their interests.
|timestamp=11:34 PM · May 3, 2019
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|timestamp=11:37 PM · May 3, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The retraining, education, and [[Labor Shortages|“STEM shortage”]] myths are some of the most persistent in our society. Facing them will be unusually painful. 

Time to bite the bullet anyway.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Q: Is the key to getting @Kasparov63  back on top over the robots just mumbling “education &amp; retraining” with ever greater conviction?

Good for @AndrewYang for pointing out that “The key is more education!” is just a slogan not a plan. He’ll take real heat...but he’s on target.
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|name=Andrew Yang
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|content=8% of US jobs are in STEM fields.  92% are not.  If someone thinks they can train 92% of workers for roles presently occupied by 8% of workers they have a rather fanciful view of both people and work.
|timestamp=2:52 PM · May 20, 2019
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|timestamp=3:57 AM · May 21, 2019
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|timestamp=3:59 AM · May 21, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=I know of no truly working profession.

Medicine: broken.</br>
Law: broken.</br>
Research: broken.</br>
Banking: broken.</br>
Mgmt consulting: broken.

You’ll say “STEM, Tech and CS FTW losers!! Woot!!”

And I’ll whisper “Bro, thou dost protest way way too much.” Me thinks.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/columbia-had-little-success-placing-english-ph-d-s-on-the-tenure-track-alarm-followed-and-the-university-responded/
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=If you are interested in how this nauseating game has been played for decades and just how conscious the market tampering is, you should find this rather interesting. It is the national scandal that cannot be fully reported by any major news source: 

https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let me tell you the secret as a US PhD in Math: the answer is under-compensation.

We got it into our head decades ago that we were entitled to STEM-serfs. So we started a rumor that our own US students are so dumb &amp; lazy that we need STEM visas to protect us from our own kids.
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|content=With U.S. students lagging in science, should scientists be elevated to celebrity status?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/12/11/should-scientists-be-considered-celebrities-to-inspire-kids/
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|timestamp=6:45 AM · Dec 12, 2019
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|timestamp=12:23 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Thus began one of the craziest lies in US history: the market couldn’t be used in STEM! Somehow, despite the theory that compensation should rise to direct our efforts, we started lying about scientist shortages. Math was now so critical that STEM PhDs should be practically free!
|timestamp=12:23 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|content=If Math &amp; science are so critical, where are our young PhDs with country homes, sports cars, high ranking jobs, multiple offers from top employers at mouth watering levels inducing envy from lawyers, management consultants &amp; investment bankers?

Now watch your reaction to that Q.
|timestamp=12:23 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|content=You‘re probably thinking: “Why should math &amp; science folks need all those toys, money, security &amp; freedom for their families? They should be happy to work for much less!”

Well the market says otherwise. The market says that analytic skills are fungible and we can’t accept that.
|timestamp=12:23 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|content=And with your reaction you have your answer: we have weirdly decided that STEM talent should work for our national wealth and security but should not unapologetically participate in the power, freedom and pleasure they provide for everyone else. They are STEM serfs to be used. 🙏
|timestamp=12:23 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|timestamp=12:28 AM · Dec 14, 2019
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|content=They are not thinking they are trying to destroy it. They are thinking that they are entitled to interfere with the wage mechanism. Which they have conspired and lied to do. Sir.
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|content=I want everyone to remember who is deliberately destroying STEM R&amp;D in the US. It’s America’s scientific employers conspiring within the national science complex to flood the market for almost 50Yrs by tampering with the wage mechanism to undermine scientist leverage.
April 1990:
|timestamp=9:58 PM · Dec 18, 2019
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|content=Here is what no one will say: 

If you’re too weak to demand US-market level compensation for your family, you‘re too weak to tell an exploitative advisor to buzz off when you’re right. You‘re too weak to do US style science &amp; challenge orthodoxy.

You‘re too weak to do the job.
|timestamp=9:58 PM · Dec 18, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=It’s MUCH more important to have strong scientists managing real risk than to fetishize anything else. There is no way to measure, manage or price control breakthrough science.#

The only way to screw up US science is to undermine bargaining ability.

Which we’ve done for >45Yrs.
|timestamp=9:58 PM · Dec 18, 2019
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The national science complex lives by tricking each generation into believing massive opportunity is just around the corner. But the market is always flooded.

And no one will seriously report the idea that the Science Complex is built around this lie, which killed our vitality.
|timestamp=10:08 PM · Dec 18, 2019
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|name=Alex Kontorovich
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|content=Let me see if I follow: the NSF is actually not supporting science/innovation but working actively to destroy it by ... "flooding" the market (and lowering STEM wages) with foreigners? I would usually ignore such nonsense, but you call yourself a "math guy," so what's your proof?
|timestamp=1:40 PM · Dec 19, 2019
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|content=First of all, “such nonsense” is a pretty disappointing indication from a Math PhD asking for “proof.” That’s not how we do things in math. If you claim it is nonsense sir, what is your proof?

Second of all, with that out of our way. Let’s try again. Nice to meet you, Alex.
|timestamp=2:37 PM · Dec 19, 2019
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|content=Lastly: https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 19, 2019
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|timestamp=2:41 PM · Dec 19, 2019
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