Jesus. That was kind of tone deaf. Not everyone laid off is an Engineering Director who has worked at Google for 18 years. That guy probably could have retired years ago. There are many who were laid off for whom that isn't true.
My child studied the Yamaha music program which starts at age 4 or 5 and emphasizes singing everything using fixed do solfege similar to Suzuki but with group classes
They developed white key absolute pitch meaning they can recognize any natural tone by ear and can sing any pitch from memory.
Many of the students developed some form of absolute pitch.
However, I am not sure the utility of the skill. I am into jazz and tried to teach them some improvisation and they never showed a great aptitude or interest for it and they also struggle with relative pitch tasks, essentially converting the notes they recognize into the interval.
In short, I came to the conclusion that absolute pitch recognition by itself won't make you a great musician.
Strong disagree. Getting into a top University is hard but once you are there matriculating isn't. In fact many of these institutions suffer from grade inflation.
I don't think an equivalent GPA at a more prestigious school signals anything of the sort. In fact many more prestigious institutions grade fairly leniently on the assumption that their students are already ahead of the curve.
The few exceptions are at places like Berkeley where they accept a large number of students.
It's one of the reasons that I think eliminating standardized tests for admission to graduate institutions may be a mistake.
Same. I have never met this proverbial rest and vest guy making 7 figures. Most everyone I know is scrambling to survive the performance reviews and get to the next level.
And if your productivity is very low you will get put on an improve or out plan.
I'm not sure how much that reflects general attitudes. That show is also set in Shinjuku which I believe houses a lot of strip clubs and other similar activites.
These days we seem to be obsessed with tearing down any successful institution.
I am skeptical that redistributing endowments will have a large net positive impact.
That said, I never attended an "elite" institution and have lamented that they are so revered in our society. The German system of higher education where schools are relatively inexpensive and similar in quality seems to incentivize students to attend in order to learn something whereas the main incentive for attending an elite institution is to open doors to high paying careers.
It's the same at SpaceX. Everyone I know who has worked there said the pay sucks and the hours are long and the only reason to do it is a passion for the industry.
Musk seems to be modeling his companies on the video gaming industry.
Yup. THat's what I was going to say. There data suggests that everyone kind of estimates their ability similarly so that more skilled people underestimate there ability (impostor's syndrome) and less skilled people overestimate the their abilities.
And on the right, Fox let go some of longtime staffers who were not sympathetic to the networks coverage of the 2020 elections.
ESPN fired Jemele Hill for calling Trump a white supremacist.
If you want to claim that the NY Times is left-leaning than I would agree. It's a newspaper in one of the most liberal cities in the country. Its ethos are probably more reflective of that than any elite orthodoxy.
I would say it jumps to unsupported conclusions. It is true that few companies own most of the mainstream media produced in this country.
As someone else who worked at one of these companies stated, that these companies are just pedaling propaganda to serve elites or oligarchs needs much more evidence to substantiate such claims.
Most of these are public companies whose primary motives are just to make a profit.
These companies have millions of employees with diverse opinions and diverse sources of content production.
So, I think the article oversteps its claims that the mdeia in this country just serves the interest of some set of elites.
The article doesn't really show how this situation has evolved over time. Before cable didn't we essentially only have CBS, NBC, and ABC?
When I see other sources like OANN, or the disinformation being peddled from some corners, I am not sure what is a better alternative.
These media companies also employ a large number of people with diverse opinions. To suggest that a small group of elites are controlling the output of these companies is far fetched.
For some reason, a certain segment of Americans, have lost trust in these institutions that have been there all along. I fear the alternative.