Your talented classmate chose a good high-paying profession - what's the problem with being a dentist exactly? > People coming from underrepresented background

Your talented classmate chose a good high-paying profession - what's the problem with being a dentist exactly? > People coming from underrepresented backgrounds don't want to spend 8 years doing a Phd, then a ML bootcamp, all so they can make low 6 figures at a job that could be outsourced or H1Bed at any minute when they could instead go to medical, dental, or law school and have a respected and well paid career. OK. So what? I think it's reasonable for people to decide they don't want to spend years in a PhD program. I'm having trouble parsing your argument. Are you saying the pipeline problem is due to minority students choosing other more lucrative professions? Good! What's wrong with that?