No, it's fucking retarded at its face. So we find the children that need the LEAST amount of help, and give them the most help.
No we determine the learning potential for the student and resource and tailor experiences so that students have the best opportunity to reach their learning ceiling. It's something done in sports all the time. You don't give professional training to the slowest kid in the class because all you get is mediocrity. You also don't completely ignore the slow kid and just focus on the future professional, because you alienate the child and the sport dies. In sports (essentially physical education) there is a system of tiers that help children of different skill levels perform as best they can. This also has the side-effect of keeping a greater proportion motivated and involved. There's only a few hundred pro athletes for any sport, but there are literally thousands who participate in beer league athletics.
The current education system doesn't just do a poor job of teaching children, it has the effect of discourage continual learning.
We should try to get the best overall education from our investment through strategic targeting and not implement a one size fits all system.
In economic terms marginal return = marginal cost
Then I humbly submit that you got the wrong person for the job.
The brilliance of HR. Hire people to do jobs you know nothing about beyond the buzzwords discussed in the last team building exercise.
Surprised more baristas don't get employed as Java developers
But i luckily got an internship at intel
Ahh Intel, where the most difficult engineering problem you'd have to solve is finding your cubicle
If everyone else in a company doesn't do their best, a company won't do very well in the S&P either
For operational level workers, poor performance causes a delay or a slight increase in costs, they have very little power over the bottom line. That's why it's important for workers to have the option to unionize, because collectively they can have a significant impact, and therefore influence corporate decisions.
I have never heard of management being offshored, particularly at the board level, even though giving just 1 job the axe there is as good as 100 engineers or several hundred lower paying jobs.
If cutting 1 CEO can create several hundred lower paying jobs, then why stop there. Cut engineers, and you can get 10 more lower paid worker; for each technician you cut you can hire twice as many unskilled employees. Businesses don't run on quantity of employees.
Contrary to what you believe, American companies haven't hesitated to hire foreign CEOs. For example Pepsi, Dow, Gap, MasterCard, and Adobe, not to mention the former heads of Intel, Coke, McDonald's, Citigroup, Eli Lilly and Alcoa didn't come from the US. I'm sure there are many other foreign born CEOs holding jobs that an American could do.
I notice that CEO performance bonuses don't seem to take a hit when the company fails to track the S&P or even when it tanks. Not even when the problem is obviously foolish decisions made at the top.
Total CEO compensation tracks stock performance, but you are correct that bonuses do not correlate. But this discrepancy occurs whether the company is doing well or not. They get their bonus if the company tanks, but if the company does amazing, their bonus do not come close to reflecting their positive influence.
The problem we have today is the imbalance of power on the influence of government. CEOs and corporations will always look out for their own interests, it's just the nature of the beast. But because of crazy campaign contribution and lobbying laws, the voice of the people is ignored by our government. Frankly, I don't care how much executives make, what I do care about is how our elected representatives refuse to address the discrepancy between the growth of corporate profits and the non-existent growth of worker salaries. The necessary social change isn't going to come from demonizing corporate managers, it has to come from change in our laws and government to prevent such exploitation.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.