Here is a comment I left at You Can’t Buy Your Way to Social Justice:
If you are interested in social justice become an engineer. They have done more for the welfare of humanity than all the politicians and “social justice” types combined. And made a profit at it to boot.
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Agreed, though there’s a whiff of damning with faint praise, there, since ‘all the politicians and “social justice” types’ probably contribute a net negative.
If you are interested in social justice become an engineer.
Back in the ’90s there was a LOT of talk about the “Digital Divide” between the better off and the not so well off. Seems to me the best way of bridging the “Digital Divide” has been the design of computers which are much cheaper and with much more computing power than we had 20 years ago.
“… Alas, in our world, melodramatic loud-mouths thunder to and fro in the foreground, doing little of any value while stealing most of the credit for civilization. Meanwhile, in the background, millions upon millions of decent, creative people work diligently at their specialties – welding, waiting tables, performing orthopedic surgery, designing shopping malls, researching plant genetics – each contributing to the prosperity of the rest. Some contributions are larger than others (as Dr. Borlaug’s certainly was), but even a contribution as colossal as his is quickly taken for granted, any notice of it submerged beneath the self-congratulation, swagger, and bellicosity of the politicians who pretend to be prosperity’s source. How wrong.”
-Don Boudreaux
As a retired engineer, I thank you for the compliment.