Comment by johnnyanmac

>You gotta ask yourself whether we really want a society where people have to already know the job before they get their first job

That'd be fine... meanwhile, the new loop we come into:

- okay, so what does your company need and do

Company: "that's under NDA/trade secrets, we can't tell you"

- okay. we can't see what you want to you'll have to train them

Company: "we don't want to train people, they just need to hit the ground running"

- okay. we'll just let colleges train the fundamentals and have others figure it out

Company: "no one's training anyone anymore. Where did the juniors go?"

Even doctors have apprenticeship programs. An industry where no one wants to train the next generation is a doomed one. If the US doesn't do it, some other country will gladly take it up.