I was an OS in the Navy with AC time on smaller platforms… Then worked in a control center at the central artery in Boston… Recruited for ATC school and went into finance instead. No one in my entire experience was from MIT or an Ivy League school. Why would they take the pay cut.
And then Mr. Duffy responded "Donald Trump, sir, that is an incredibly stupid thing to say. I believe you are a very stupid person. Do you know how *anything* works, you absolute goddamn dolt."
- my wildest fantasies that, goddamn, would be fucking amazing to happen
So, I guess the defunding of scientific research and academia is all a ploy to force our best and brightest scientific minds to have to take jobs as air traffic controllers?
He does. Uber, Twitter, Tesla all hire from the top 10% of engineering schools, as do many hedge funds and companies like Palantir. These fresh college grads get insane compensation packages that your average student from a state school or community college wouldn't.
You do not have to hand it to Mr. Duffy but he seems to have at least enough toes in reality to realize what's going to happen if the FAA loses more ATCs
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- my wildest fantasies that, goddamn, would be fucking amazing to happen
So many graduates have been unable to fulfill their career ambitions and have to settle for being podcasters because of DEI
It was supposed to be a lark. He wasn't vetted for bushittery the way the rest of the cabinet was.
Also I don't think Elon knows much about the kind of students MIT puts out.