[Article] Massive STEM Layoffs Amidst Alleged STEM Worker Shortage

Employers of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) workers have claimed a desperate shortage of STEM workers, especially computer programmers, for many decades. These claims have been repeated year after year during booms and busts including during periods with many high profile layoff announcements. “Big Tech” STEM employers are now reporting many large layoffs of STEM workers (November 2022). This includes not only unprofitable companies with widely used products and services such as Twitter but highly profitable companies such as Amazon — which remains highly profitable as of now.

True Up Reports 49K Tech Layoffs in November 2022 So Far (https://www.trueup.io/layoffs)

Amazon Discards STEM Workers Despite Record Profits and Alleged Shortage of STEM Workers

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/amazon-reportedly-plans-to-lay-off-about-10000-employees-starting-this-week.html

CNBC Article on Amazon Layoffs (Nov. 14, 2022)

Highly Profitable Big Tech Colossus Amazon is one of many companies announcing huge layoffs of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workers such as computer programmers and electronic engineers recently (November 2022).

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/000101872422000023/amzn-20220930.htm#i47fac579bf704282a7ca9b7c4e945ae4_13

Amazon Q3 2022 Financial Report from SEC EDGAR

Amazon has reported a net income of $11.3 billion in the twelve months ended September 30, 2022.

Amazon was one of many “Big Tech” companies including Google and Apple that protested President Trump’s freeze of H1-B guest worker visas — used almost exclusively for STEM workers, mostly computer programmers — in June of 2020.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-google-twitter-speak-out-against-trump-h1b-visa-freeze-2020-6?op=1

Amazon is one of many major tech employers that promote the idea of shortages of engineers and encourage Americans to pursue careers in engineering. For example, Amazon has partnered with the code.org “non-profit” to promote students pursuing engineering careers:

https://code.org/afe

code.org lists Amazon as a Platinum supporter, reportedly having given over $3 million in donations.

Amazon is listed a Platinum Supporter ($3M plus) of code.org

Amazon is listed as a “member” of Compete America, an industry trade group that claims desperate shortages of STEM Workers and for dicey guest worker visas like the H1-B visas, largely for computer programmers.

Amazon is a Compete America Coalition Member

Conclusion

As in past layoffs, these layoffs by highly profitable companies like Amazon suggest they face no real “shortage” of STEM workers.

(C) 2022 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

[Video] Improved Way to Find and Evaluate Censored Internet Content

Screenshot of Censored Search Web Site
https://odysee.com/@MathematicalSoftware:5/improved-way-to-find-and-evaluate-censored-internet-content:3

Other Video: BitChute ARCHIVE

A short video announcement for the Censored Search 2.1 web site and service — find the products and services that cost less, work better, and preserve your liberty that Big Tech and Big Pharma are censoring and shadow-banning!

Censored Search 2.1 Announcement Script

We are witnessing unprecedented censorship of competing products and services by Big Pharma and other advertisers that fund Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Internet near monopolies, aided and abetted by politicians in both political parties and across the supposed political spectrum who depend on these giants for campaign contributions and cushy jobs after they leave government service. This unholy alliance is pushing inadequately tested extremely expensive patented drugs and purported vaccines that fail in a matter of months at best, and intrusive surveillance technology products such as vaccine passports beyond the dystopian nightmares of George Orwell in 1984, Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheight 451.

How do you find the products and services that cost less, work better, and preserve your liberty when Google and other advertising funded search engines censor and shadow ban any products or services competing with this unholy alliance of monopolies, politicians, and the secret police?

Demo searches for “ivermectin,” “vitamin D,” and “air purifier.”

NOTE This is a link to a popular article on the airborne transmission of tuberculosis study at Johns Hopkins that I mentioned:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2020/the-experiment-that-proved-airborne-disease-transmission

Our censored search web site and service enables you to search censored and shadow banned web sites for suppressed information. We offer transparency on what the search ranking algorithms are doing and tools to help you separate fact from disinformation. We offer both a free service for everyone and a paid professional service with full access to our tools and the ability to customize the search algorithms for your needs. Our business model is end user funded to avoid either direct control or subconscious bias from advertisers.

Our censored search service is intended as a complement to increasingly censored advertising funded search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and even DuckDuckGo which appears to be increasingly shadow banning alternative content. We cannot duplicate many useful features of the censored search engines yet, nor is this needed. Use our search engine for censored and shadow-banned content — get the other side or sides of the story. Remember there are often more than two sides to a story!

Inclusion in our search engine is not an endorsement. We include sites based on evidence of censorship or shadow banning in our judgment. We attempt to be neutral and provide tools to our users to evaluate and verify the content without relying on our fallible judgment. There is evidence that powerful interests actively spread disinformation to alternative sites to make identifying suppressed factual information difficult and discredit factual information through guilt by association. We are developing tools to fight these active disinformation tactics.

We have made a number of improvements to our service since our Censored Search 2.0 release last month. We have added the popular libertarian site LewRockwell.com which reports being demonetized, cut off from advertising revenues by Google. We also added Julius Ruechel who has written some detailed analyses of the COVID pandemic and response. The list of supported web sites in now ranked by crawl date, most recent first, to enable users to quickly tell what is new. We have integrated the WordNet dictionary to automatically provide definitions of words and phrases in the dictionary as well as help recognize mispelled search words and phrases.

Bill Gates WORDNET dictionary demo.

What is coming? We make continuous improvements to the service. Our main current goal is improving the search algorithms and user tools to better find and evaluate factual information that has been suppressed in an independently verifiable way. You should not have to trust us or the web sites.

Give us a try at censored-search.com We welcome constructive feedback. How can we serve you better? Bookmark our site as the censorship is growing by leaps and bounds. You may need us more in the future! Let your friends and colleagues know. You can access more advanced features and support development of a transparent, verifiable search engine that works for you and NOT giant advertisers such as Big Pharma by becoming a paid subscriber.
If you want to support our development work, subscribe now!

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(C) 2021 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).