Mathematics does not build cars, marchers tell Ford Motor Company

[TooFastTim]

so somebody with an Arts/Humanities degree is more useful than an engineering or IT degree?

According to govt yes.

*edit* @Cosmik Debris, who was that guy on PoliticsWeb? Greville somebody?

 

[surface]

Mathematics was not invented by one race of people, in case some smooth brain takes you seriously.

you new to mybb ?

 

[itareanlnotani]

yes, agreed, put a sign that say's Ford left......

then they will go home....

You assume they can read.

If basic math is an issue, I suspect illiteracy isn't.

 

[skimread]

These marchers are like flat-earthers.

All they should know is that Mathematics denialists don't create jobs

 

[rvZA]

Mathematics does not build cars, marchers tell Ford Motor Company​

Ford should just pack the f**k up and leave South Africa and do it elsewhere. No use doing business in a country where this type of mentality prevails.

If they do decide to stay in SA, I think every single worker from top to bottom should get only the minimum wage with no additional benefits.

 

[upup]

The plant has already been expanded. MyBb had a few articles about their solar installation.

Someone told me they want to build a new one for EV stuff, and that one was halted.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

"In their view, they could learn to build a car, operate machines and organise and deliver tools and equipment regardless of their mathematics skills."

Entitlement. Once a dompoes, always a dompoes.

Plenty on the MyBB forum that don't believe you need math for computers or cars to work...

 

[Harmonic]

Plenty on the MyBB forum that don't believe you need math for computersuch or cars to work...

Yeah absolutely. There was a thread not too long ago proving as much

 

[Cosmik Debris]

You probably don't need pure mathematics to do many of the jobs that it's required for.

They can't even do matric math lit, which is primary school arithmetic.

 

[Nicodeamus]

They can't even do matric math lit, which is primary school arithmetic.

I actually don't think they they want to learn anything. That's usually the first problem.

 

[TheChamp]

Someone told me they want to build a new one for EV stuff, and that one was halted.

I suspect such project could have been canned for other reasons besides our Eskom problems.

 

[Vorastra]

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Well for general workers just putting the cars together. But math and science builds them as well:

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The guys fixing, programming and maintaining those robots need math and science.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

I cringe each time when there's a big hoo-ha being made and they report in the media that "Sipho from Soshanguve" built his own helicopter/plane/car etc. The reality is that he built something that maybe looks like it, but at most it would be useful for entertainment and amusement purposes. I have never seen in the media that what that Mr. Sipho built could actually perform as what mode of transport he tried to replicate.

Neither did it ever get FAA approval to leave the ground.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

agreed, but in this Context to BUILD Cars, tell me how is somebody with an Art Degree more useful than a Engineer?

granted, if we were speaking about the reception area or training center furniture, yes, somebody who knows their Rembrandt is more useful,
but out on the production floor, I fail to see how Mr Art degree will fare when putting in 5 Bolts, and Torquing them to spec,

Or pre tensioning a wheel bearing.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

If engineers were left to design everything the world would consist of only triangles, circles and squares.

Look around you. Even those that don't look like them can be put under the microscope and they will show up as such...

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Welcome Pete, we hear you are descendent of Wright family. It is not everyday we get such eminent luminaries on this forum.

Why don't you go back to India and design a sewer system and toilets?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Stupid article. Most people working on the manufacturing line don't need any mathematical skills.

Nope. Anyone working on this car production line will require math to programme, service, repair and maintain the robots:

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Cargo cult lives!

Oh yes, here we go . I would suggest anyone that has no idea of the cargo cult reads up to see what a lack of math results in:

A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system, in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods.

Cargo cult - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Is the article not working out well for you without the race angle? You seem determined to shoehorn it in.

Oh, It was white guys Toyi-Toying? Sorry about that. Next time show a pic.