The point is, they can go into M/C/F, make 6-figure salaries at age 23, then go from there. They'll be making a whole lot more than the vast majority of enginee

The point is, they can go into M/C/F, make 6-figure salaries at age 23, then go from there. They'll be making a whole lot more than the vast majority of engineers even at Google, without taking risks. By the time they're 35, they'll be very wealthy, about as wealthy as you'd be if you start a startup and sell at a $10M valuation (and keep $1-2M), but they don't have to take any risks. But you have to work very hard (all the way from High School), tread along a well defined path, and it'll work out. It's a standardized, reproducible variant of the American Dream of living a wealthy life.