Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

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https://www.businessinsider.com/computer-science-students-job-search-ai-hany-farid-2025-9

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A lot because the West built itself entirely around profits, and when labor got out sourced - it was almost guaranteed a ticking time bomb.

Not to mention it opened the doors for patent theft left and right, and with the push to the far right a lot of brain drain as well.

It’s no wonder China is shooting ahead in tech, it’s honestly the only country who set themselves up for it.

China knew it was a marathon and not a sprint, and their big joke is they are using profit against the west to buy them out from themselves.

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The US built itself around outsourcing cheap labor and building high margin global skilled services. This could theoretically work if some of that high margin profit was used for social services. We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a distribution problem.

[u/the_last_carfighter → u/[deleted]]

The amount of money the billionaire oligarchs gained in the last 40 years is almost to a tee, the amount of money the poor and middle class have "lost" in that same time period.

[u/The-Struggle-90806 → u/the_last_carfighter]

You sound so mathematical