Bloomberg Bloopers

Former New York City mayor and current presidential contender Michael Bloomberg thinks farmers are dumb. At least that’s what a recently surfaced video clip from 2016 of him speaking to a room full of Oxford business school students seems to imply.
The big city billionaire was addressing a question on the challenge of training workers for the Information Age. He answers by breezily dismissing farming as a rudimentary skill which he, personally, can teach anyone. “You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.” He then goes on to explain that the rural rubes who dig holes and plant seeds lack the cognitive ability to grasp modern techno ...