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As I said earlier, we are now in the twilight years of STEM.

The Golden Age of STEM is gone.

Not coming back.
I don't know if it's gone, but it has changed. We just filled a junior engineering position in my company. What I saw was tremendous wage compression. The best grads out of college were touching six figures, and many highly qualified candidates with 10 years of experience were making about the same amount.

Now the figures for the experienced grads might be skewed downwards somewhat because of our position's salary cap, but there were many talented people to choose from.