Another point is that software engineering (currently) has a situation where the higher the supply goes the higher the demand is. Once an organization starts di

Another point is that software engineering (currently) has a situation where the higher the supply goes the higher the demand is. Once an organization starts digitizing their processes, there is a higher additional benefit to hiring another software engineer, because that second one has access to data that previously not accessible programmatically. Previously information that was kept in excel spreadsheets or on paper is now on servers. You would think that it would eventually lead to some stopping point, but there are additional funnels and issues. For example, finding professors in university to teach software engineering is hard, because all of the people graduating from their universities in software engineering know they can make much more money in the industry than in education. Places like Stanford or MIT (who are already trying to be selective on purpose) can afford it, but community colleges or even high schools can't give them 1/3 of what they would make otherwise.