&gt; &quot;If you look at the scale and speed with which the Valley moves, if they wanted to solve this problem, they could,&quot; Dr. Womack said.<p>That&#x27;s basically an argument for &quot;the Valley&quot; not having any problems at all. It&#x27;s said in the context of a wider talent shortage, so does it mean that there is a huge glut of engineers (black or otherwise) currently being ignored&#x2F;underemployed?<p>Or it could mean that throwing money at the problem would fix it in short order, which I generally doubt, though I have no issue with the notion that companies complaining about a talent shortage should consider paying to get what they want.<p>Or it could mean that companies should throw money at the problem in the form of training up engineers, but that is not a speedy-scaley proposition, unfortunately. Hard problems still exist in the time of Uber.