My hypothesis is that the best indicator of long term economic health is the number of engineers a country produces relative to the number of lawyers. A country that is cranking out more engineers than lawyers will trend up. A country that is moving toward a lawyer-heavy economy will grind to a stop.Yup. There's a need for lawyers, and a need for people with English degrees (and history degrees). But we need scientists and engineers quite a bit more.
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Some of you will argue that education in general is the biggest predictor of success. But I think you'd agree that if everyone started majoring in English, we'd all starve to death with impeccable grammar.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
As Usual Scott Adams Has It Right
On his blog:
I would agree but take it a step further.
ReplyDeleteHow many engineers are working as engineers?
How many lawyers are working as lawyers?
John Henry
Get an engineering degree and then move to a country with jobs...
ReplyDeleteWhile I tend to agree, Japan must be examined as a strong exception to this rule of thumb.
ReplyDelete(Of course, nothing more than other non-judicial system methods of hindering engineers is quite sufficient, and Japan has those in abundance.)
China and India would tend to support the thesis.