Yeah, why don’t we have more jobs for those with gender studies degrees? Why no love for the 16th century French poetry experts?
Go to school for a joke degree, expect to have joke opportunities.
What? You mean you can’t get a real job with a major in interpretive dance and a double minor in rabble rousing and community organizing? ;)
You do have a bit of a point, but it's not merely just joke degrees — I know many STEM-types, especially in programming, and the prospects aren't great. Part of the problem is that there's a widespread aversion to training in [tech] companies, part of it is the widespread H1B visa fraud, and part of it is "maintaining the narrative".
All three are related: (1) the companies put out ridiculous job postings [like 10-years experience for entry-level jobs, experience with their exact set-up, lower than expected wages, and other such]; (2) companies seem to view training as a pure expense, not an investment [this ties to the requiring of experience w/ their exact set-up]; (3) the companies then use the failings of #1 & #2 to justify requesting H1B visas; (4) importing H1B visas, who will accept lower wages, further depress the market-value of the jobs allowing them to post lower salaries in #1; (5) all of which is painted as America has a big lack of STEM workers!
and, to a degree, This is why we need foreign workers!
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Tell that to the folks with STEM degrees who live in an economy that, increasingly, realizes that sourcing these valuable jobs (that stand at the foundation of building more expertised careers in these real and tangible fields) to India and parts elsewhere is cheaper than paying and providing for American workers, dealing with American property issues, an dealing with American regulations. These folks haven’t been a decisive election block at all, many haven’t had a chance to vote for a principled conservative, and our nation needs better policy at home and abroad more than it needs cheap lines like these.
To the folks that your line describes, it’s absolutely true. But let’s not cram engineers together with underwater interpretive pan-gendered basketweavers. We’re at the vanguard of making changes to this country to make it great again, and it’s better to let these folks know what they’re really up against rather than give them something that a New Yorker cartoon would print.