This is an outdated talking point. The fact of the matter is STEM degrees aren’t a safe bet anymore, nothing is. H1B visas are crowding out STEM, Legal, and Medical professions and nobody is acknowledging it. The GOP pretends this is “high skilled immigration we need” when it is simply hollowing out the middle class even further.
My own brother-in-law had his entire engineering department dissolved so that they could replace everyone with Indians and Chinese.
Did your BIL “recover”?
Happens all the time. Personally seen it. Not sure why there is so much denial on the board.
Most freepers are 30 years behind the times unfortunately.