I didn’t say it would work the way we want it to, just that it will be generally satisfactory. Not brilliant, not disastrous. If the government get involved it will be disastrous, just like the education fiasco you mentioned.
Businesses do not educate, because they cannot in a meaningful fashion. They are forced to use TAFE or other training schemes which are expensive and ineffective. They’re usually a decade or so behind current technology. Which means that you end up with someone who has a piece of paper necessary to do the work, but needs training properly on how to do it. We can train people to splice optical fibres. We’ll do it for free! OJT. But we’d need rocks in our heads to take a TAFE misqualified output and give them a $20k splicing machine and a 64 core cable to patch in. First we have to untrain them .......
The govt. can’t do basic technology planning. It certainly can’t do social engineering planning.
