They want to do research. A lot of the jobs in industry ‘require’ PhDs not because they need those skills but because they figure they’re smarter and harder workers than others.
Your interpretation.
I’m still on my first car.
One of the bike routes I ride passes by auto junk yards, ostensibly sources of spare parts for future DIYers. I’d pay to have them crushed and the lots turned into parks.
I’m not horrified. I’ve been in recipient countries, seen all the stuff we dump on them happily accepted there. Most of the clothes we donate to thrift stores gets bundled into giant multi-ton bundles and shipped to poorer countries which pay a penny or 2 per pound. Some years ago the LA Times had an exposé about how the Mob (Armenian?) had moved in on the trade, taken it over. P. J. O’Rourke, commenting on how we could contribute to the dignity of 3rd-world countries, recommended not-donating our old bell-bottoms to the Salvation Army.
And there are a of research jobs in industry. Universities are not the only place doing research. These people are highly educated…and can get work if they want to. So it’s not their dream job…I’ve taken many jobs that wasn’t my dream job in the past 45+ years to support my family and not be a burden on society.
Junkyards are becoming less and less common. Many are becoming salvage yards. The difference is…when a vehicle comes in…they strip it down to the individual parts and store them and put into their inventory control system. Metal parts that are of no value are sent to be crushed. Other parts are junked or shredded then junked.
When I was in grad school there were about as many real research jobs in industry as in academia. There were about 75 new jobs each in research for physicists in both, over 1K new physics PhDs.
When I lived there 20 years ago, as cars lost value the taxes skyrocketed, to encourage domestic car buying. Cheaper to always be buying a 3-year-old car. I saw junkyards with 4 and 5 year old cars stacked 6 or 7 high, no rust, no accidents.
We send a lot of stuff that cant be used here to overseas. Expired medicine, outdated food, baby food and formula that does not meet US specs for nutrition and contaminants, old and inefficient power transformers not made with grain oriented silicon steel. Black cloth. Probably more.
Plenty of crap coming in, if you are looking at masks avoid KN95, it only meets China standards, 75% vs 95%. Sure cuba has a lot of old classics, but so do a lot of people in US.
Same as black cloth. I did a project in collaboration with a textile engineer and on the first trial things didn’t go exactly as expected. I was a little upset and the textile engineer said “Don’t sweat it! Nobody ever starts out to make black cloth.” In textilespeak, when the dying process doesn’t come out right, you salvage the cloth by dying it black.
Well, you could screen something over it, but I would think those could be sold as collectors items, like the newspaper that was distributed early that had the headline DEWEY WINS PRESIDENCY. But his comment had nothing to do with dying. We made a machine attachment that needed more work and he made that statement as an allegory.