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Originally Posted by Qcom
Well, here's the rub:
Its great to have engineers, and we do indeed currently have an excess of jobs, but, if FIRST really proliferated throughout society as its goal states, we might end up having too many chiefs, not enough indians. The idea is that, if everyone becomes a techie or an engineer, society begins to devalue the artistic and athletic people, which are important to a healthy society.
As a rebuttle to that, I'd talk about animation, websites, etc. that encourage digital artistry.  |
I like how engineers are likened to chiefs and artists are compared to ordinary tribespeople.
I think a more robust counterargument to that is that if a job is important to a healthy society, market demand will create those jobs anyway regardless of government programs; furthermore, there are currently myriad opportunities for kids to play sports, draw, write, etc., but it's less easy for them to be able to learn modern engineering and software skills.
The lesson here: find assertions that broadly hit the entire issue, rather than focusing on a few minor exceptions.