Facebook hires software engineers from India to fill US posts

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23. (RETRACTED) Yes, but their higher education system is still pretty bad.

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(Facts given here have been demonstrated incorrect through corrections by HiPointDem. I don't, however, take messages down if the facts are incorrect, I leave them up to inform people what I got wrong. I wish this board had a strike-thru feature, but I'll "excerpt" it. I apologize for my error.)

Their average engineering graduate is probably at about the level of auto mechanics in the US.

And a search among a billion is a much bigger haystack, harder to coordinate and find qualified people, you'd think. Their pictographic alphabet is also a huge drag on education and communications. Any way you cut it, the field should be flatter even with the higher population.

So, my point still stands: we're suffering due to lack of qualified people here. This is because conservatives hobbled our higher education system. In the '70s & '80s in retaliation for the Vietnam protests, they cut grants and forced students to get loans, at a time when interest rates were 9 percent. I know this. I was in college when it happened, and when I hear about the US losing jobs, I think back on that terrible, vindictive, policy decision. I bet you didn't know that obscure part of history?

PS: But I still believe this:

The quicker we trash this loan-based education system, the better off we'll be.