I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research. I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topi

I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research. I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topics. Anything below C is a big nope. Verilog, VLSI, FPGA, anything to do with embedded IoT. Yeah america wont survive if kids today stop valuing EE topic just due to some misguided economical models/interpretation. The rockets that will land on mars wont be designed solely by software guys - it will require a lot of EE innovations - if america gives up then some other country will take its place. Reminds of the movie Interstellar.