STEM

redtitbandit

as of right now, 10:10am, my brokerage account is up more TODAY than i will earn working 2020 hours at my STEM job in 2025. today more than half of the stocks in my account are up +3.5%, one is up +40% I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought.......

FawningDeer37

American politics as it pertains to economics makes no sense. Like, some dude who grows and sells soy to Brazil for a living will vote to stop selling things to Brazil solely to minorly inconvenience a guy like me with a STEM Masters.

Adorable_Is9293

In case anyone is not aware: autism is hereditary. That’s it. There’s no legitimate debate about the “causes” of autism. It’s just part of the wide spectrum of ways that humans can be and the associated traits can even be beneficial for some autistic people under certain circumstances. Autism is over-represented in the STEM fields, for instance. See also, Dr Grandin’s work on visual thinking and her revolutionizing of animal slaughter practices. See also, Tylenol is basically the *only* medication that pregnant women aren’t currently advised against taking. So OBVIOUSLY most pregnant women have taken it during the 9 months of their pregnancy. No causative link should be inferred. And, the old (and only) study linking vaccines to autism was retracted, the data was falsified and the author had conflicts of interest.

luv2block

The bigger issue is the educational system. China is producing more STEM graduates than anywhere else in the world. That's what is going to destroy America.

HangryNotHungry

BABA and ONC lifting up the china economy for China sector rotation for more investments in China AI, BIOTECH, and STEM 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈

HangryNotHungry

China stocks. Been beaten down and no one likes it for past years, but i see BABA sentiment lifting chinese sector along with more funding in China STEM/BIOTECH/AI Investments

HangryNotHungry

China stocks. Been beaten down and no one likes it for past years, but i see BABA sentiment lifting chinese sector along with more funding in China STEM/BIOTECH/AI Investments

throwaway2676

Not really close. I'm a STEM phd who actually works in CS making much more than you...who has developed a gambling addiction

Big-block427

I’m not a seer, which you may fancy yourself as. What I believe is that we’re in the early stages of a worldwide AI revolution, and the employment opportunities that are here now, but will clearly grow exponentially will afford the next couple of generations jobs in areas that today may not even exist. But, it requires a focus on STEM even more than we can now envision. For those who will really want it, the answer is always education, skill building and not being afraid to fail. I’m out now.

Tha_Sly_Fox

It hasn’t traded on fundamentals in years even back when Musk was darling of the left for his EV prowess and STEM background I remember almost 10 years ago a relative who works for a large American auto maker venting to me about how Tesla was valued higher than their company despite not having any financial stats to justify it

iBoMbY

Yes, China has 2.5 million STEM graduates more than the US every year, and all they do is copy your "freedom technology". lol. Your propaganda is getting really ridiculous.

DFW_BjornFree

Imagine working a real job that requires a STEM masters degree and making less than some guy trading options and futures in his boxers eating cheeto puffs and touching his lil johny.  Oh wait... why are my fingers cheesy

mygoodoldreddit

STEM going to 24.

Tkins

Data centers are not strictly for AI and ESPECIALLY not for LLMs. There is a ton of compute power used for all sorts of machine learning/AI beyond simple LLMs. Think about alpha evolve, alpha fold, your navigation, your search engines, ad and social media algorythms, the list goes on and on. In STEM research AI is involved in nearly 100% of all research. The OP is also full of shit. GPT 5 is a massive success. Consumers are just lost in what makes a good business case. GPT 5 is SOTA while being far far more efficient and cost effective. From a business standpoint that is a huge bonus to performance and profitability. Google was already ahead of the game in this domain, but now Open AI has both the efficiency advantage, intelligence advantage and agentic advantage. GPT 5 pro is also a sginificant step up in coding, agentic work and accuracy. Your average robosexual is not interseted in these things. They prefer sycophantic models that pump their ego, where GPT 5 is more factual and business profsesional. The vast majority of people are grossly misunderstanding the business side of AI and it's effectiveness. They seem to think these businesses are operating on the idea that RIGHT NOW AI is going to replace people, so when it doesn't , people claim it's all hype. That's not what they have been saying though. The earliest I've seen predicted by a reputable exec is Amodei from Anthropic who said we could see 50% of entry level white collar jobs replaced in 2026. We're still a year away from that. In AI terms, a year is massive progress. Other execs are not on this same timeline, they are looking at 2030's for actual job replacement. Even AI 2027, which is considered very agressive with its timelines, has a median disruption year of 2028.

Previous-Grocery4827

Not to mention the rampant H1B abuse gutting the middle class and causing really high unemployment for recent CS grads. We told them to get STEM degrees and then threw them to the wolves.

shmoopie_shmoopie

Lawyer is now a STEM field?

strawberrymiint

Just my thoughts so it might be complete bullshit. In China a lot of the older generation worked shitty factory jobs. They saved all their money and poured it into the education of their children. Asian culture puts a very high emphasis on education. These parents are sacrificing a lot so that their kid can go to a good university with the expectation that the kid gets a well paying corporate job. Also, many parents want their kid to be in a STEM field (doctor, engineer, or lawyer). So now you have a generation of Chinese youth who have been told all their life that if they try hard in school, they don’t have to work the same shitty job as their parents. Plus they all are in like the same 5 fields of study. China has more shit paying manufacturing jobs compared to white collar jobs. Idk much about Mexican culture, but I don’t there’s the pressure to become a doctor/lawyer/engineer/white collar worker. Also the one child policy in China didn’t help. Now parents/grandparents have exceedingly high expectations for the only kid in their family to succeed when the jobs aren’t there.

mygoodoldreddit

Well for anyone following along, STEM is up 25% this week and 82% this month. I think today’s close is going to help push this back towards 20 and ultimately having us retest the 52wk high.

HawaiiStockguy

The stock market is in a huge bubble, with the P/E of the S&P at almost 30 while it ignores the inevitable coming crash. By Christmas, The rise of authoritarianism will tank stocks inflation will be high and continuing to climb from trade wars and tariffs, and the falling USD. It is already moving up. Trump is firing those that accurately report the financial #s. Unemployment will be high and continuing to rise due to government layoffs, cancelations of government contracts and awards, and the reduced bilateral trade from tariffs. It is already moving up. The USD, already down 10 % will continue its decline as the free world turns against the US and its currency. Foreclosures, car repos and business failures will all be on the rise, due to inflation, trade wars and job losses. 25 % of buy now pay later purchases are currently for groceries The share of households becoming seriously delinquent on their auto loans and credit cards has already hit 14 yr highs. Credit card balances topped $1.2 trillion, rising 7.3% from the fourth quarter of last year. That is almost $4000 per person of any age. With the pause on student loan repayments ended, many are in dire straights. “The money that has to go to student loan payments now is money that can’t go to paying off credit card debt or building an emergency fund or working toward other financial goals that build a stable foundation,” Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree Student loan delinquencies jumped to 7.74% from 1% following the ending of a pandemic-era pause of reporting past-due loans on credit reports, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s first-quarter Household Debt and Credit Report. This will continue to worsen. Companies will fail and those surviving will see profits decline or turn into losses. Tourists to and within US , previously a big contributor to GDP will be way down, due to anger at and fear of the US coupled with people not having discretionary income to vacation. Airlines are continuing to cancel fights and entire routes to and from the US. Scientific research will grind to a halt, preventing future innovation in health care and all other industries due to cancellation of research grants, preventing innovation over the next 10 to 20 years Higher education will be dire financial straits, with some colleges and universities going belly up as foreign students flee or are kicked out and research grants disappear. Foreign students pay higher tuition that the Universities need, and spend foreign money in the US. They are not “ taking spots” from our kids, they are creating spots that keep our economy afloat. While unemployment will be high, those put of work will not take the low wage openings of the recently deported since they cannot survive on minimum wage and that work is dangerous and exhausting Deporting handymen, day laborers, restaurant workers, slaughterhouse workers, nursing home workers, childcare workers, and farm laborers will all fuel inflation and drive down rents and real estate valuations. This year’s college grads are not able to find work especially in the previously booming programing field and in all the defunded areas of STEM. Our young best and brightest, now saddled with student loans, are joining the ranks of the unemployed. Homelessness, property crime and food insecurity will continue to rise, because basic essentials will have become too expensive and job losses will take their toll. Homeowner’s insurance is going up in price due to catastrophic storms from worsening climate change. These issues will cause interest rates to rise, further exacerbating all the above problems The US will get closer to defaulting on debt with foreigners selling off US debt which will cause the AA rating to decline to A or worse.( Defaulting on debt is Trump’s go to move) Home prices will fall but higher rates will depress sales as more property comes onto the market. Rents will fall as valuations fall. Recent buyers will be upside down. New construction is down. Average time on the market is now 9 months and rising. The sellers market has ended Homeowners insurance will continue to rise due to climate change worsened “ natural” disasters. More and more people will not even be able to get insurance. This will continue to drive up condo HOAs Oil prices may rise due to war with Iran ( since we bombed them) , but may not go up as much as it should because of declines in demand worldwide. This will help fuel inflation. This will likely be worse than the great depression.

HawaiiStockguy

The stock market is in a huge bubble, with the P/E of the S&P at almost 30 while it ignores the inevitable coming crash. By Christmas, The rise of authoritarianism will tank stocks inflation will be high and continuing to climb from trade wars and tariffs, and the falling USD. It is already moving up. Trump is firing those that accurately report the financial #s. Unemployment will be high and continuing to rise due to government layoffs, cancelations of government contracts and awards, and the reduced bilateral trade from tariffs. It is already moving up. The USD, already down 10 % will continue its decline as the free world turns against the US and its currency. Foreclosures, car repos and business failures will all be on the rise, due to inflation, trade wars and job losses. 25 % of buy now pay later purchases are currently for groceries The share of households becoming seriously delinquent on their auto loans and credit cards has already hit 14 yr highs. Credit card balances topped $1.2 trillion, rising 7.3% from the fourth quarter of last year. That is almost $4000 per person of any age. With the pause on student loan repayments ended, many are in dire straights. “The money that has to go to student loan payments now is money that can’t go to paying off credit card debt or building an emergency fund or working toward other financial goals that build a stable foundation,” Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree Student loan delinquencies jumped to 7.74% from 1% following the ending of a pandemic-era pause of reporting past-due loans on credit reports, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s first-quarter Household Debt and Credit Report. Companies will fail and those surviving will see profits decline or turn into losses. Tourists to and within US , previously a big contributor to GDP will be way down, due to anger at and fear of the US coupled with people not having discretionary income to vacation. Airlines are continuing to cancel fights and entire routes to and from the US. Scientific research will grind to a halt, preventing future innovation in health care and all other industries due to cancellation of research grants, preventing innovation over the next 10 to 20 years Higher education will be dire financial straits, with some colleges and universities going belly up as foreign students flee or are kicked out and research grants disappear. Foreign students pay higher tuition that the Universities need, and spend foreign money in the US. They are not “ taking spots” from our kids, they are creating spots that keep our economy afloat. While unemployment will be high, those put of work will not take the low wage openings of the recently deported since they cannot survive on minimum wage and that work is dangerous and exhausting Deporting handymen, day laborers, restaurant workers, slaughterhouse workers, nursing home workers, childcare workers, and farm laborers will all fuel inflation and drive down rents and real estate valuations. This year’s college grads are not able to find work especially in the previously booming programing field and in all the defunded areas of STEM. Our young best and brightest, now saddled with student loans, are joining the ranks of the unemployed. Homelessness, property crime and food insecurity will rise, because basic essentials will have become too expensive and job losses will take their toll Homeowner’s insurance is going up in price due to catastrophic storms from worsening climate change. These issues will cause interest rates to rise, further exacerbating all the above problems The US will get closer to defaulting on debt with foreigners selling off US debt which will cause the AA rating to decline to A or worse.( Defaulting on debt is Trump’s go to move) Home prices will fall but higher rates will depress sales as more property comes onto the market. Rents will fall as valuations fall. Recent buyers will be upside down. New construction is down. Average time on the market is now 9 months and rising. The sellers market has ended Homeowners insurance will continue to rise due to climate change worsened “ natural” disasters. More and more people will not even be able to get insurance. This will continue to drive up condo HOAs Oil prices may rise due to war with Iran ( since we bombed them) , but may not go up as much as it should because of declines in demand worldwide. This will help fuel inflation. This will likely be worse than the great depression.

mygoodoldreddit

STEM up 15% this morning…

PrimaryShock384

This is truth. India emphasizes and always emphasized a lot on STEM in the hopes that people get a solid job with good pay. STEM is recognized as a better career path. This supplied with their overpopulation leads to everyone studying to be engineers. Here in America - we traditionally haven't until recently where people are gravitating towards CS/Math/Engineering. Now we have qualified engineers and folks in STEM looking for work but companies are used to cheap labor from India. Frankly I can't wait till government forces companies to stop using offshore services or granting visa's.

Memnoch1207

CVM - already did it's run from 7/23 ($5.12) to 7/28 ($10.40). STEM - ran a couple of weeks after it's reverse split on 6/23. It went from a post-split low of $5.93 on 6/26 to the post-split high of $19.48 on 7/28. INMB & UP - have slowly been getting covered without significantly driving the price up. The problem with any of these short interest articles is it's looking backwards for the short interest % without seeing how the stock has performed since the short interest was reported. The latest short interest is from the period 6/30 - 7/15, but the report wasn't released until 7/24. By the time the short interest report is released, it's already out of date.

RGV_KJ

US tech industry will collapse without H1B visas. India’s leverage is in services. Critical software infrastructure of major American companies is supported by Indian companies. It’s not really possible to replace H1B workers with American citizens overnight.  A lot of people don’t realize international students from India and China overwhelmingly enroll in Bachelors, Masters and PhD STEM programs at top universities in US. About 40% of tech startups in Bay Area have immigrant founders. 

BarryMihupinner

That has nothing to do with STEM your just a brofessional regard

Ok_Cry7572

College/Uni is probably the biggest waste of time and money right now for STEM unless you one of those going to the top unis

mygoodoldreddit

STEM back on the move up 10%+ today. Looking for a continuation tomorrow

LiamPhlegmsworth

Bruh colleges are wild these days. Everyone is retarded besides the STEM kids

DrElkSnout

My God people cannot still believe this. You don't actually think a degree means literally anything unless you're in a STEM field, right? Please tell me you realize that college is a scam for literally everyone except doctors, engineers, etc.

Spezalt4

Women in STEM has failed

SimplePc54-

I think you don't understand the basic principles of how this works. The manufacturing moved out of US because if continued in US they would have been uncompetitive in International markets or heck I would say even the domestic market would have been lost in few decades or they would face economic collapse. The only thing I can say your grivences are right is Software jobs at most . And honestly even that situation occurs because of capitalism. Let's even ignore that . I find the situation funny because it just shows the ridiculous level of ignorance American people have in general. Do you think your country can magically give you all 6 figure salaries and a good quality of life .It is never gonna happen . The truth is , your ego and ignorance is amplified due to the principal of American excellence . I have seen people at r/CSMajors crying for pathetic reason. What did you expect when all people start doing coding and CS degrees for the promise of a good life . Would inequality magically disappear. Nah , it is just plain ignorance at this point . In most of world , the life you think you deserve is lived by 10 to 20% percent of population. And US has the same or I would say higher proportion of that kind of people. You people just deny the truth of life and think life will get served on a silver platter . And ofcourse your fucking country suffers from extreme capitalism . Otherwise you would be better Europe especially after WW2 when world was in your hands . But you guys chose the wrong path . There is a reason that the median income in US is much lower than GDP per capita while it is not true in Europe. Your wealth distribution pyramid is fucked up and you try to blame the world for it You guys are too shameless to blame illegal immigrants for your housing crisis and problems when you very well know it is just capitalism . You blame china for cheap labour and India for cheap IT Sorry miss it is not our fault that your country is fucked up for normal people and you guys are too soft . Do you know what normal people in Asia do? They work for wages 500 -1000 USD a month and try to educate their children. To escape the cycle. You guys are simply weak . It is not your fault that you were born in a prosperous Country and haven't learnt how to grind like most of world does. Also, the software jobs exported are mostly due to it being a flexible industry which just needs and office and computer. Major costs are labour so ofcourse they will export . After all , they can hire a 80% skilled dev at less than half the cost . Much better and experienced dev at same cost . And no, it is not due to there being too many people that the wages are cheap (microsoft,Meta etc pay well and continuously increase the pay and incentives ) It is because they are good enough when the COL is very low . America is still the best country .(For the wealthy and talented ) Just not for its everyday joe. Even I would be in the country for my PHD since it has the leading universites for field of my interest. But it is not some charity . It is merit based . You guys just hope for handouts lmao . And before shouting something stupid . Most of your current leaders in STEM are immigrants or descend from immigrants from the current or last century . US itself is built on buying the talent lmao .

mygoodoldreddit

STEM continuation. 25% today. Another 20%!tomorrow?

Difficult_Middle_216

That argument is akin to "The automobile is going kill the horse and buggy industry". Yes, we are going to automate a lot of things increase productivity, BUT, that trade off means we re-educate the workforce, and we start in the schools. We push STEM so we have the workforce to grow the companies that rely on technology. That's what Japan did when they took our auto industry. The one job you had installing fuel tanks will be replaced by several jobs. For one, you will still, and always, need human oversight in an automated setting. That one horse and buggy driver was replaced by people several people working in rubber plants to make tires. The plastics industry took off. We needed people to eventually make wiring harnesses, textiles for carpets, seats and headliners, etc. What you're not factoring in, just like the horse and buggy, is all the unknown opportunities robotics and AI might bring. You're only focused on the 10 jobs replaced. We don't know what we don't know yet. AI needs programmers, more computing hardware and network infrastructure - and people have to produce that hardware, and software on some level. People have to do machine maintenance, delivery and installation. People will produce worn parts, deliver those parts and replace them. And who knows what other Industries could be invented by advances in AI/ML, quantum computing, etc.?

jpk195

I took JPOW 3 seconds to figure out the funny math. 🥭 coming harder for STEM now.

Queasy_Soil9646

I’m doing academic research in the US and China is pretty much killing it in most STEM fields with research output while american schools are trying to survive the science funding cuts. About time to learn Mandarin.

Gloomy-Database-780

The Beginning of the End for ASML: When “Smaller is Better” Becomes a Liability At ASML, they like it small.  Like, really small. Obsessively small. They bet the entire future of Dutch lithography (and let’s be honest, a good portion of Dutch GDP and  high-tech supply chain) on extreme miniaturization. High-Numerical Aperture (NA) optics, ultra-high-resolution, Extreme UV (EUV), because nothing says “innovation” like making things more fragile, more complex, much more expensive, and possibly harder to maintain. Meanwhile, growing lithography players like China, Korea, and Japan are working on alternative advanced lithography solutions that mat actually work without the eight-figure price tag, the maintenance nightmare, or the requirement to worship at the altar of a 13.5nm EUV light source that eats kilowatts like popcorn and may or may not decide to take a nap from time to time. Let’s talk about that magical High-Numerical Aperture (NA) tech. Sure, it reduces the diffraction-limited spot size. But it also shoves process flexibility and  resist formulation into a tight, dark corner where few chemists wants to go. The higher the NA, the lower the depth of field, with much less forgiving exposure settings. The thinner the resist, the worse the dry etching selectivity. Add in more complicated top and bottom anti-reflective coatings, tighter process windows, and guess what? The yield curve may start to look like the actual ASML  stock price forecast. And oh, the projection masks! ASML’s latest scanners require masks and reticles that are so complex, delicate and involving very expensive transmissive materials that they might as well come with their own therapist. Want to scale production? Better hope the mask lifespan isn't shorter than a Dutch summer. That’s if the alignment system doesn’t sneeze and shift your $400M system into a week-long downtime. Let’s not even start with the EUV illumination source. It's basically a miniature fusion reactor strapped to large mirror array requiring picometer (1/1000 nm) precision and somehow expected to run 24/7 without crying for help. Too bad there’s almost no field data (since barely anyone can afford one of these machines) to understand how often these monsters need service. So yes, it’s cutting-edge... in the same way cutting your budget in half with a scalpel is. And the punchline? The bottleneck in computing isn’t even at the transistor level anymore. It’s data movement. Interconnects. Routing. Things that photonic waveguides (with hundreds-of-nanometers features) can handle without sub-10nm insanity. That means all this resolution obsession is starting to look like solving a traffic jam by building a gate of many narrower roads...What a well thought idea.  Moor's Law? It’s hitting a wall harder than a Dutch bicycle courier on a rainy morning. Most industries are pivoting R&D to systems-level innovation, photonics, neuromorpics or software innovations. You know...things that may work without requiring a 400-million-dollar microscope. But don’t worry, ASML has a plan: PR. More LEGO kits, more journalists and analysts singing praises, more influencers pretending to know what NA means. Because nothing inspires confidence in a nation’s tech crown jewel like a desperate media blitz and sponsored STEM toy kits. Moreover it looks like the ASML’s $1 trillion narrative is built on a brittle foundation of overhyped EUV fantasies and nearly billion-euro hardware with unpredictable ROI. In an age where system-level optimization outpaces node scaling, their valuation is less tech leadership and more tech bubble. Investors should ask: are you buying into the future of semiconductors, or into the most fragile bottleneck in its supply chain? The future is uncertain, and ASML’s once-mighty empire may just be shrinking faster than its lithography nodes. Good luck ASML, you’re going to need it.

mygoodoldreddit

looking for a STEM continuation tomorrow. Up 45% and 23% Friday and Monday. Cooled a bit today after hitting 18.50. Looking for it to hit 20+ tomorrow.

SamsUserProfile

STEM Inc. Watch my DD post about it. It's gonna squeeze. Also, majority retail owned.

AntoniaFauci

What is driving the rally in STEM? I know it crashed algorithmically on BK concerns when they did the reverse split. But this rally has more than doubled that correction. Is it going to be a big winner from the Big Bankruptcy Bill?

Upper_Job4722

Check out STEM too

JonasClimbs

You are right about the time. I spend a lot of hours checking earnings, tech moats, news and charts. I had replaced video games in my life with stocks, as i find it more productive and i love the process of learning about the company hw/sw technology. It's close to my field of study (STEM-AI), but checking the balance sheets/charts is starting to be booring. I might move some of the money in the companies i don't really trust in (FinTech) to ETFs and than have some "play money" to buy the "AI" stocks i believe in (for example MU and theyre role in HBM, NAND and DRAM market)

mygoodoldreddit

It's happening! The squeeze is underway. It closed up over 45% on the day. HUGE volume. Take a look at STEM. I think this will continue next week.

HealthyFly1561

STEM 🚀🚀🚀

urAtowel90

My wife and I have worked hard to become millionaires. I'm from a middle class family, she is an immigrant from a third world country. I own one Fossil watch as my nice watch from HS, and have considered buying, uh, more Fossils for some variety now that we're millionaires. I will never buy a new Tudor or Rolex for thousands or tens of thousands, even slated to be worth $100M by retirement because we are both STEM PhDs. My brother-in-law installs countertops, but you know uh, good ones so they're at 75-80th percentile in household income nationally (in a low cost living area no less). I've explained investing to them a thousand times. Instead, they constantly struggle with living in a $150K "only 1100sqft house" that he constantly complains about because they waste all their money. I mentioned my interest in buying a new Fossil watch. He scoffed and said "I mean, they're good watches in HS ... but a watch is the ultimate male accessory!" So there you have it. He lives in a house he's ashamed of because they eat out a lot and because "a watch is the ultimate male accessory!"

HealthyFly1561

STEM 🚀

Spear_n_Magic_Helmet

I like the off-topic yet poignantly funny posts in here. Have that STEM videos on Pornhub energy.

TimeGrownOld

Oh man I've been on reddit for a decade now. I've been arguing for cryptocurrency for the entire time. It'd get you instabanned on r/wallstreet bets, indeed I am banned from r/personalfinance for even mentioning it. I'm a STEM grad so learning about the cryptographic/protocol part was fun. It was sad seeing scam after scam hit the community, but I suppose that's what happens with any new financial technology before the appropriate laws are in place (thanks for dragging your luddite feet Gary Gensler). Now, a decade later and we nation after nation building up their crypto reserves... not to mention the US companies and towns that are stockpiling. Not to mention the jobs it's created, the companies that have made a fortune from selling shovels (Coinbase, RH, etc). A literal multi-trillion dollar market cap. And yet, I'm still having the same debates about the validity of the underlying technology that I had a decade ago. I feel vindicated, but also now realize just how easily a little bias can blind logic.

HawaiiStockguy

The stock market is in a huge bubble, with the P/E of the S&P at almost 30 while it ignores the inevitable coming crash. By Christmas, The rise of authoritarianism will tank stocks inflation will be high and continuing to climb from trade wars and tariffs, and the falling USD. It is already moving up. Unemployment will be high and continuing to rise due to government layoffs, cancelations of government contracts and awards, and the reduced bilateral trade from tariffs. It is already moving up. The USD, already down 10 % will continue its decline as the free world turns against the US and its currency. Foreclosures, car repos and business failures will all be on the rise, due to inflation, trade wars and job losses. 25 % of buy now pay later purchases are currently for groceries The share of households becoming seriously delinquent on their auto loans and credit cards has already hit 14 yr highs. Credit card balances topped $1.2 trillion, rising 7.3% from the fourth quarter of last year. That is almost $4000 per person of any age. With the pause on student loan repayments ended, many are in dire straights. “The money that has to go to student loan payments now is money that can’t go to paying off credit card debt or building an emergency fund or working toward other financial goals that build a stable foundation,” Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree Student loan delinquencies jumped to 7.74% from 1% following the ending of a pandemic-era pause of reporting past-due loans on credit reports, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s first-quarter Household Debt and Credit Report. Companies not failing will see profits decline or turn to losses. Tourists to and within US , previously a big contributor to GDP will be way down, due to anger at and fear of the US coupled with people not having discretionary income to vacation. Airlines are cancelling fights and entire routes Scientific research will grind to a halt, preventing future innovation in health care and all other industries due to cancellation of research grants, preventing innovation over the next 10 to 20 years Higher education will be dire financial straits, with some colleges and universities going belly up as foreign students flee or are kicked out and research grants disappear. Foreign students pay higher tuition that the Universities need, and spend foreign money in the US. They are not “ taking spots” from our kids, they are creating spots that keep our economy afloat. While unemployment will be high, those put of work will not take the low wage openings of the recently deported since they cannot survive on minimum wage and that work is dangerous and exhausting This year’s college grads are not be able to find work especially in the previously booming programing field and in all the defunded areas of STEM. Our young best and brightest, now saddled with student loans, are joining the ranks of the unemployed. Homelessness, property crime and food insecurity will rise, because basic essentials will have become too expensive and job losses will take their toll Homeowner’s insurance is going up in price due to catastrophic storms from worsening climate change. These issues will cause interest rates to rise, further exacerbating all the above problems The US will get closer to defaulting on debt with foreigners selling off US debt which will cause the AA rating to decline to A or worse.( Defaulting on debt is Trump’s go to move) Home prices will fall but higher rates will depress sales as more property comes onto the market. Rents will fall as valuations fall. Recent buyers will be upside down. Homeowners insurance will rise due to climate change worsened “ natural” disasters. This will drive up condo HOAs Oil prices will rise due to war with Iran, but will not go up as much as it should because of declines in demand worldwide. This will help fuel inflation. We just went to war with Iran. This will likely be worse than the great depression.

InclinationCompass

Honestly, deepseek feels more dialed in for STEM stuff. If you’re asking about physics equations, programming logic or anything super technical, it tends to give more accurate and direct answers. It’s clearly trained on a ton of scientific papers and dev docs, so it handles math and coding concepts really well. That said, chatgpt is still way better for general use and explaining things in a more natural, human way. If you’re trying to actually understand a concept or talk through something step-by-step, it's smoother. DeepSeek can be a bit robotic or overly terse sometimes.

CrustyToeLover

Good fucking luck to anyone in STEM that's entry level or moderately experienced. The job market has been taken out back and kneecapped

After-Imagination-96

Being a server/bartender has been a great way to generate income for a while now - beats most non-STEM jobs I can think of - obviously it's hard/impossible to get to the 500k bracket but you can definitely make over 100k if you work 35+ hours  25k off of Fed taxes is about 6k in additional income for many

BullBearHybrid

Imagine a person with a college degree in STEM fields using AI vs a high-school dropout working at Wendy’s using AI. Who do you think will outperform.

BullBearHybrid

Imagine a person with a college degree in STEM fields using AI vs a Wendy’s high-school dropout using AI. Who do you think will outperform.

ComfortableLeader608

Kanye certified a genius calls on STEM player https://preview.redd.it/mtbccp2lrgbf1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55bd76008f9ae59ff3d3cb970d84fad213f41e38

Spirited_Code_8060

It's played out as we expected so far, and maybe there is a squeeze going on that pushed it back up to $8.41. The borrow rate for STEM shares seems to be very high right now...

Sharp-Direction-6894

Learn a skilled trade and use your analytical mind from STEM training to get your contractor's license and start a business That's what I did.

FawningDeer37

I have an Arts major and a STEM Masters. Is this rare?

Syab_of_Caltrops

This had been a huge meme for months. I highly doubt any significant partion of STEM professionals will go to Europe.

Stranger-Jaded

It's a very good observation regarding the younger people going back into blue-collar work especially since today college degrees are meaningless unless your degree is in the STEM fields of work. Otherwise, good luck trying to pay off the student loan for a job that doesn't exist for so many liberal arts degrees out there. Ever since the Obama Administration and the Democrats passed a law that fundamentally changed how the student process worked. That law made the government the direct lender and owner of student loans. Even in the private sector. This had a devastating effect on overall student loan debt and delinquent accounts over the next 15 years, mostly in part because the law that was passed, was passed under the guise that the third party in the loan process, who was responsible for the risk analysis, was somehow, without proof from the Democrats, disproportionately affecting lower-income Americans. The third party was responsible for doing the risk analysis on each individual's ability to pay back the student loan for the degree that they were applying for. The third party would look at job availability what the average starting salary is for someone with that degree and if that starting salary would be able to cover payments of this loan on top of normal life. It was in no way shape or form based on racism or classism as claimed by democrats at the time. Instead, it was based on the individuals who were applying for a student loan and their credit history regarding whether or not they would be able to pay back the student loan in the agreed-upon timeframe so that interest wouldn't crush the student loan borrower financially in the long run. The third-party risk analysis would ensure that getting this degree was a financially sound decision. Such as does one need a degree for the job they are looking to do as a career for the rest of their life? If that degree and average starting salary in that career field are in high demand and require a specific degree to attain those jobs, you would be flagged as low risk and you would be able to get the loan. Unfortunately for many people, they never researched to see if the starting salary of jobs available for that college degree had salaries waiting for them that could pay off the loan before the loan would become shackles of debt. Debt that would take these people decades to pay off if they are ever able to, because of the option to only pay 10-20% of the debt per year and after so many years it would be forgiven. This was the Democrat's plan all along. Enslave a generation of Americans and then offer them salvation for a vote that they could never follow through on!

Brawmethius

Bruh your friend is just a loser. All my friends now between 30 to 38 are homeowners, families started, etc. We aren't from wealth, we all just went into STEM. Most C'd for degrees but at least bothered to not major in psych.

Interesting-Pin1433

We have a variety of manufacturing, mostly higher tech, and some stuff that just isn't as logistically feasible to ship long distances. Advanced manufacturing is still a good tool to make good jobs. Provides jobs for STEM workers, and, while not as many blue collar jobs as ye olden days, there are still more entry level roles in maintenance that only require a high school degree or maybe a 2 year community college tech diploma.

FolkMetalWarrior

The problem with McKinsey and places like it is that they only hire a particular type of person from the same schools. They aren't legally allowed to discriminate but if you were to look at who they pick to give their coveted recent grad workshop spots to, it's all Ivy grads with MBAs or STEM PhDs from the highest ranked schools. Then they all end up or come from the same social circles and economic backgrounds. There is no unique thought in the bunch.

ruat_caelum

A couple STEM degrees, I have 2 in mathematics and comp science with minors in physics and chemistry. Then familiarly with lots of regulations like NEC for electrical for things like class 1 dive 1 fitting ratings, or things like API (American petroleum institute) 751 recommendation that you don't use silicon in HF Alkylation units. Along side other craft specialties like what TC boilers need, what metallurgy is used for high nitric acid, pumps and cavitation, BFW (boiler feed water) treatments. When charity of chemicals matters. HIC (Hydrogen induced cracking) and our friend Hydrogen permeation. Reaction batch processes vs continuous processing. FAA lighting requirements for elevated towers. All the railroad laws. Then you get into control and programming and questions like which flow meter is best for this process? pitot tube, anubar, orifice plate, thermal mass, coriolis, vortex, mag flow, etc. Then you get into analyzers and stupid one off shit like why the simplest ever Ried vapor pressure analyzer doesn't work at this plant and it's costing them millions of dollars because they feed the Denver area and the EPA change is going into effect and they can't meet spec. All the safety standards. It's an insane amount of cross craft / specialized knowledge. But the pay is fucking awesome, the problems are always things teams of people couldn't tackle, and every day is interesting. As to how you get into doing what I do I'm not sure I could navigate into this role if it had been my goal all along. A lot of it was luck, and being the guy that solved the problems before so you get the call next time or get your name dropped, as in [you should hire X]. I'm sure there are smarter, more experienced, and more educated people than I am not in this type of role.

urAtowel90

I'll tell you what. If you want to donate to a charity that provides - of all things - soda to the needy and provide demonstration of your donation, I'll match it. However, as a PhD working in pharmaceuticals (generics, to make drugs cheaper), any donations I make will be to something more reasonable than an exacerbation of the healthcare crisis and the absurd profitability of semaglutide products (GLP-1 inhibitors) for diabetes and weight loss induced in no small part by the considerable irresponsibility of the masses on sugar consumption and lack of exercise. AI personally don't consume soda at all, because each can has about 40mg and 10% of your net daily calories, totally empty. Now, most folks - particularly those on govnrment programs - are unlikely to do this proactively, thus the need among many for GLP-1 inhibitors to essentially short-circuit their metabolism into telling them they no longer crave something at all so as to eliminate the indulgence. There are a variety of ways to stem (even STEM) the flow of subtly destructive substances, be it environmental science or the law therein or healthcare equivalents, but if you don't know the Dr. Science fundamentals of it, it's hard to say much about the Mr. Esquire legal and political policies around it, much less simply turn it into an "enjoyment based" budget civil rights movement here. In the end, diabetes creeping up on you doesn't really bring enjoyment epidemiologically, Mr. Esquire.

MaxDragonMan

Sure but STEM grads and the tech sector were what the entire school system, at least in the US and Canada, has been pushing for the last ten years. If those who were pushed into *the* wanted/desirable/in demand programs can't find work now, how about everyone graduating Inn*any other field*? Anecdotally: it's looking real bad. For a lot of people.

kairos

STEM also had a 1-20 reverse split, I had a small share and just ate those losses... just not worth it.

Louis_Riel

You're fine. I graduated with a STEM bachelor's degree with $14 in my bank account, a $5,000 maxed out credit card, and $17,0000 in loans. Getting out of that took about 6 months, saving my first $100k took about 3 years, investing to a million took another 7 or 8. I've had three different cars since graduating, all of which I bought used.  Don't measure yourself against what you see or read on social media.

MaxDragonMan

I'm sweating for everyone, everywhere. I was doing some browsing of r/Jobs because I'm planning to start job hunting for a swap sometime soon, and it seems like it's rough out there. A mix of automation, leaning up operations, fake postings, and high competition means this job market is, quite frankly, a *nightmare*. (Especially in my personal context, as my city is quite bad.) \[And I'm not even in CompSci!\] I'm not delusional. I know I, nor anyone, was ever *guaranteed* a job out of university, or in general... But everyone I know in computer science (quite a few, as my partner is majoring in it) is having a hard time finding internships/co-ops via their school. It's gone from "you *can* get a co-op, especially if you're exceptional" to "if you're exceptional *maybe* you'll get a co-op." Not saying they should be granted jobs from on high, but when I was in highschool the messaging was "STEM STEM STEM, doing computer science will guarantee you a job and that you'll die rich." Now? I hear horror stories. And I expect things to only get worse for every field. Admin, copywriting, HR, finance, etc. So long as there is an incentive to increase margins by cutting down on work force, the AI adoption will continue. Not *soon*, I expect it'll take some time... But I think it's become very clear to me that any career I, or anyone in my age range embarks upon, will look *extremely* different from those of our parents.

Spirited_Code_8060

I expected the heavy price drop to occur after June 4th when STEM's board approved the reverse split, but it didn't and actually went up, then tanked when STEM announced it actually would reverse split. I wonder if most people didn't know about the reverse split the board had approved until the announcement. Anyway, I also wonder if short sellers will attack STEM aggressively again once it reverse splits to a stock price of $9-$10. That might weigh the price down toward $6-ish, but also set up an interesting potential squeeze if STEM follows up with another positive 10Q.

movdqa

Cars have gotten more reliable over the four decades that I've been driving. Back in the day, cars required more maintenance and systems didn't last as long as they do today. As we move towards electric vehicles, I can see even less demand for mechanics as EVs are simpler. My dealer is usually more inclined to replace parts while my local mechanic is more inclined to fix parts that can be repaired. So the long-term outlook for mechanics may not be as attractive unless you're really good and in-demand. One other factor is that working as a mechanic can take a physical toll on your body so you may have to deal with disabilities in your 50s. There's also the exposure to hazardous chemicals. Some STEM areas have been hit very hard recently. Computer Science grads are having a hard time finding work as big-cap tech has been doing a lot of layoffs and those with experience are taking entry-level jobs which doesn't leave much for new graduates. I went to college for a year and was recruited after that year and my employers paid for the rest of my college degree and for all of my graduate degree - so there's that approach too.

Lethalmouse1

I know poor car mechanics, rich car mechanics.  I know poor master's degrees and rich ones.  Either case you can succeed or fail.  A good car mechanic/capable person can easily match a Master's.  A good Master's can easily match a good mechanic.  Personally, in this situation, I'd probably take mechanic, because of the money and what I know of money now. And that idk exactly what the idea is regarding the job in a general term such as master's in stem. That has wide applications.  But a car mechanic typically has a better pathway to independence vs working for the man. I think STEM can, but it is more going to be consulting type, and require travel that I'm not into. If I were into travel, then maybe STEM master's.  But at 25, you're on the fast track to shop ownership.  If I'm pure serf minded, I might say STEM, just because my 40 hour a week job is all I'll ever have and do with myself. 

michael_curdt

Assuming both are good at what they do and make sensible financial decisions, the answer is 100% Person B Seed money is great, but don’t underestimate the upside in STEM graduate degree. Person B will easily catch up to Person A in like 2-3 years.

opiewann

$STEM inc just did a reverse stock split 20:1 … stock sold off almost 20% this morning… not sure if it’s bullish or bearish… might be a good time to buy and see what happens.

RibbitRibbitFroggy

Yeah man, STEM is useless. That's why everyone doing the dirty work is using horses and hand tools. Stupid STEM folks and their fancy tractors and power tools and cutting edge equipment that allows a single farmer to cultivate vastly more land than he otherwise could.

Boring-Test5522

STEM is useless when there is nobody doing dirty work.

cleatosthefetus

STEM up 14% and looks like it’s going parabolic. STEM is focusing on utilizing ai in the clean energy field. Consensus price target of 1.11, highest estimate is 5.00. Currently sitting at .68., I really think this stock has room to run.

mygoodoldreddit

STEM quietly up 125% since April 15th. Anyone paying attention to this one?

Tizzlefix

Fantastic response, I actually can't disagree with anything you're saying because you're right about how LLM's work. They even have different methods for how they statistically choose the next step so it can change the output if you change the backend of one to do so. I've read quite a lot of papers on it as my job tends to lean more into the GenAI (measuring the precision of whatever the AI generates) stuff though I wouldn't call myself terribly qualified past the basic math even though it's not terribly complicated relative to other STEM fields. I think something I forgot to consider were critical systems, I absolutely agree you can't have someone who doesn't know what they're doing running it through an AI there, recipe for disaster.

Apprehensive_Two1528

As a previous grid guy , i can confirm you STEM doesn’t have a big market share and probably never will. Dump it when the wind blows.

Powerful_Stick_1449

STEM - AI platform for energy/ grid management... real product, has won awards, the idiots were set on selling hardware as well rather than embracing SaaS and subscription revenue. Finally made the shift this way, need to rebuild backlog and expand. Been holding since SPAC announced target... huge fan of the company, its product and potential... but mad I have ridden this shit alll the way to pennies

Bright_Ruin2297

Money well spent. Great learning opportunity. Probably better than your degree, unless it's STEM.

YampaValleyCurse

STEM Love the tech, hate the investment

Peeeeech

STEM major is probably 95% of this sub 

Spicyboi981

It’s so crazy having a psych degree and my STEM major friends can’t even get interviews rn

homeopathic_firebomb

Lmao there’s 75% cuts to engineering NSF grants, congrats to the most 🥭 STEM discipline. I’ll light a candle y’all hahahahahah

wally-sage

How does having an advanced STEM degree or being the CEO of a company that literally sells the tech product that CEO is hyping up make him different from a typical tech bro?

No-Repeat1769

Cuts federal STEM grants yet asks for funding trade schools for STEM

InternetSlave

Inspiring the Next Generation of Female Scientists and Innovators Act (INSPIRE Women Act) and Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (2017): These bills were signed into law by President Trump. The INSPIRE Women Act authorized NASA to encourage young women to study STEM fields and pursue aerospace careers. The Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act aimed to leverage existing programs at the National Science Foundation to promote women in STEM entrepreneurship, encouraging them to bring their discoveries from the laboratory to the commercial world.

AlkibiadesDabrowski

>Yeah man this is what I mean by degrowth! That’s not degrowth that’s recognizing an economic reality. >Transitioning to a less knowledge-oriented economy is backwards development. It’s not a transition. It’s simply again a fact. Not everyone can go to college and end up middle class. That was the idea and the dream. And it’s been popped against reality. It simply is not feasible and the economic consequences of trying it are pushing back. >and has by far the best higher education system in the world Wow what a take. >to transition away from knowledge work. Why do we want less technology workers in the technology age? We don’t want less. We won’t have less. We will continuously have more. The problem is the rate of growth and rate of demand are out of wack rn. There is not net decrease in college graduates. But a net decrease in the growth of the number of college graduates. Very different things. >This is like pivoting hard to agriculture in 1929 just because a lot of industrial workers temporarily lost their jobs. It’s much more like realizing monocropping is bad. >Life sciences research is being fed into a woodchipper by HHS right now. Holy shit. If you think that’s r&d I can’t help you. >You know the unemployment rate for recent humanities graduates is lower than recent STEM graduates, right? Yep. But again. More industry/protecting what’s left is supposed to soak up stem majors. >Also most of these jobs are dogshit. Okay yes but the economy doesn’t care about that. They are profit producing. >Why not send the humanities graduates to be teachers and nurses instead? Teachers are not profitable. Nurses aren’t humanities students lololol. >Yeah, dumbass nativism. Democracy moment

captain_ahabb

>Destroy Universities because simply too many people are attending. It’s creating a debt crisis and there simply are not enough “white collar” “middle class” jobs for the ever increasing college graduate pool. Yeah man this is what I mean by degrowth! Transitioning to a less knowledge-oriented economy is backwards development. It makes no sense for the United States- which controls most of the world's capital and has by far the best higher education system in the world- to transition away from knowledge work. Why do we want less technology workers in the technology age? This is like pivoting hard to agriculture in 1929 just because a lot of industrial workers temporarily lost their jobs. >Defunding R&D isn’t happening. It’s being put under state control. You should change your information sources if you think there's no defunding of R&D isn't happening. Life sciences research is being fed into a woodchipper by HHS right now. >It’s sending the surplus of non stem majors to shipyards auto factories iPhone plants Amazon warehouses and new chip factories. You know the unemployment rate for recent humanities graduates is *lower* than recent STEM graduates, right? Also most of these jobs are dogshit. Why not send the humanities graduates to be teachers and nurses instead? Huge shortages of both occupations in the US right now. We should be spending federal dollars to increase teacher pay in the poor states. >Idk same reason we put loyal American citizens in internment camps in WW2 Yeah, dumbass nativism.

opsers

It's referred to as brain drain, and we've been seeing it since the first Trump presidency. It will only get worse as republicans continue to mindlessly push anti-intellectualism by defunding and discrediting education and science. Would you want to work in a STEM field in a country where the government is actively undermining your livlihood?

FrostyParking

The higher learning institutions focus on foreign students because American students can't afford the tuition fees even with student loans. The fix is to both subsidise American students especially in critically important sectors like STEM subjects and to increase the quality of schooling in public sector education......but well politicians won't do that as it doesn't give them votes at the next election, it's too long-term to bother fixing.

albearcub

I don't think anyone knows for sure if it's a bubble yet. But my argument against it would be that most people just don't understand the technological necessity of semiconductors. Also, most people conflate AI with ChatGPT. I work in the semiconductor field and we have already gone full force implementing ai/deeplearning into manufacturing/process. I have friends in other engineering and STEM fields who have also began fully utilizing AI. Similar to how consumer chips are a small part of semiconductor revenue as compared to data centers/supercomputers/industry use etc, I believe the same is true for AI. Another thing that makes me question if it's a bubble. LLMs are generating massive revenue and use for big tech, in turn generating massive revenue for the semi companies. Besides Nvidia, the semiconductor field in general hasn't actually exploded in the same way. Basically the whole field has been down or sideways for over a year. So not only is the revenue tangible and demand sensible, but we haven't actually seen the potential of the "most important technology in history". I think people just assume things are a bubble if it's a drastical technological advancement.

Jeff__Skilling

Because he’s a handsome-yet-socially-inept white guy with a background in STEM that experienced quick success in finance? Plus, this is /r/stocks, where most of the user base suffers from Main Character Syndrome any way 🤷‍♂️

Welcome2MyCumZone

I’m a refugee bud. Family moved here with less than $1000 to our name when I was a kid. It’s called STEM and not calling others “kid”. Cry more.

Silent_Remove_If_Gay

Has a degree in IT. Is tired of debating non-STEM, and only wants to speak to people who have engineering degrees. My guy, the only people you should be talking to are non-STEM graduates. They're the only ones who would believe you know what you're talking about. IT is for the kids who were too dumb to pass Comp Sci. If this is supposed to be a shitpost, at least give yourself some better credentials.

teeddub

And we're trying to bring the shitty throw away plastic production back here? Is that what you're suggesting? I'm asking why we feel the need to bring highly automated, low skill production lines to US. Why should we have people screwing iPhones together? Why don't we bring highly technical, high toleranced skilled labor to the US? That kind of labor starts by educating and training more machinists, engineers and welders. Creating opertunities for the STEM feild. Tariffing Canada, the UK and Australia doesn't help bring highly paid and qualified work back to the US.

Scotho

Replacing, I don't see that happening yet. But a certain portion of traffic, certainly. Academic STEM tutoring videos are surely impacted. Thank you for your service, random indian dudes.

killadaze

My last one is TMC which is now 3 dollars. The only penny that I’m in under a dollar is Origin Materials, ORGN. They have a profitable pet cap business. Might be an acquisition target long term for a big bottler. Oh and I like STEM, power bidding software. They’re all risks though so do your own DD.

subydoobie

THIS!! where is the tarriff on services?? Why just products? its dumb, dumb, dumb. As a former IT worker who has seen IT support outsourced with much crappier service to India, etc, I agree.. what about tarriffs on outsourced legal, accounting, business process and other professional services which are much higher paid than factory work?? And at the same time, the current presidential administration is cancelling the investments from the CHIPS act which was created to bring advanced semiconductor technology plants BACK to the US, with high paying jobs.. and the security bonus of onshoring critical chip tech... AND 100% on education. we need BOTH more $ support to students who want to learn trades (like welding) AND more $ support to general college education to boost critical thinking skills which you need for any knowledge-based job! AND give more support to american students who want to study in STEM fields. But what is our federal administration doing instead? suing universities? slashing STEM grants which support grad students? slashing funding for scientific research which forces new science grads to leave the USA?? Sadly I am rebalancing my portfolio to 50% Europe/Asia - as we cut science and education and they raise their national investments. I just don't see how the US recovers quickly from the current attack on the university & research & education systems which boost our knowledge economy.