STEM and CS/IT have been promoted as some magic solution to everyone’s career or employment issues, which is really annoying. STEM careers are very demanding an

STEM and CS/IT have been promoted as some magic solution to everyone’s career or employment issues, which is really annoying. STEM careers are very demanding and do not pay as well as you think compared to other fields like law or medicine. the reason you hear about STEM is that companies need lots of cheap labour. so they need lots of kids going into STEM so they can pay everyone less. when i look at levels.fyi and see the 1MM total comp packages i always wonder how many of those get hired in FAANG every year and what those people look like.