One excellent way to ensure you have fewer Americans willing to pursue these advanced studies, is to punish their parents and the parents of friends who are engineers, programmers and researchers. Have people watch as they are laid off in huge numbers. As they lose their homes, retirements and are forced to move somewhere else to start over every few years
Why would any young person want to sign up for this abuse? Get a degree in something easier, more stable and let someone else take the big risks
I am 60+ now, very lucky in that my investments in tech have been lucky in the extreme. Most of my peers have not been this fortunate. But it’s hard to recommend young kids pursue the route I went. Because American politics has laid that path full of land mines.
STEM degrees are HARD.
One excellent way to ensure you have fewer Americans willing to pursue these advanced studies, is to punish their parents and the parents of friends who are engineers, programmers and researchers. Have people watch as they are laid off in huge numbers. As they lose their homes, retirements and are forced to move somewhere else to start over every few years
Why would any young person want to sign up for this abuse? Get a degree in something easier, more stable and let someone else take the big risks
I am 60+ now, very lucky in that my investments in tech have been lucky in the extreme. Most of my peers have not been this fortunate. But it’s hard to recommend young kids pursue the route I went. Because American politics has laid that path full of land mines.