Also, we can shift away from a culture and polity that worships Mammon. Generally speaking, people simply go with the grain of the culture, regardless of whethe

Also, we can shift away from a culture and polity that worships Mammon. Generally speaking, people simply go with the grain of the culture, regardless of whether that grain is crooked or straight. If the culture reduces life to economics and makes consumerism its religion, then yeah, you'll see lots of people who would have chosen less lucrative paths choose work that pays more. What's worrying about finance and FANG pulling in a good chunk of the STEM majors is that finance is not a productive sector, and arguably, FANG isn't really all that productive either, certainly not relative to the economic bias. You need sectors like finance, of course, because they are the way capital is allocated toward productive labor, but the only way unproductive or marginally productive sectors can make this much money without funding and investing in productive industry is through usury. Usury is the ruin of empires.