He's conflating two things; yes, there are a lot of good and cheap engineers in India. And yes, doing what the customer needs is important. Conclusion: the end

He's conflating two things; yes, there are a lot of good and cheap engineers in India. And yes, doing what the customer needs is important. Conclusion: the end of the engineer! It's more like "the engineer is dead, long live the new engineer". The end of the engineer would mean the end of our decades-long high-tech fun ride. People take so much for granted. Engineering is implicit in everything these days. We've replaced the guts of our (human) world with software, hardware, and it's not showing signs of stopping. Who is going to support that? People with liberal arts degrees, of course! Yes, I bet in a decade, it's going to be so much easier to get a job with a liberal arts degree than with an engineering one...