Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career

Lam1969 writes "Robert Mitchell says CIOs and other IT managers continue to bemoan what they claim is a shortage of good technologists. He suggests beefing up salaries and convincing young people that IT is a viable long-term career path would help to change this sentiment. Mitchell also says the threat of offshoring is overstated; rather, the problem is industry and the media have been 'complicit in propagating the myth that IT is a dead end.' From the story: 'First, the dot-com crash shattered the illusion that those in high-tech jobs would always emerge from economic turbulence unscathed. Now, students are hearing that a four-year degree in programming or engineering doesn't matter because all of those jobs will eventually go offshore to foreign workers at very low wages. A generation has been dissuaded from pursuing what is in reality a very promising career choice.'"

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It's zombie war

[Baldrson]

What's going on is actually warfare. Zombie money is being killed. Unfortunately, there is a lot of zombie money being created all the time because of the way the tax system subsidizes property rights. So the zombie money can kill a lot of people before it finally dies, and if the death rate of the zombie money isn't higher than the rate the government creates it, it can keep killing the people for a very very long time.