STEM

LimpAd4924

Tbf, more finance bros have 0 STEM or technical knowledge. If you can make it sound profitable, they’ll fall for it.

fruitloop00001

A bachelor's degree is typically required for an MBA. Not specifically a business degree. I was being snarky with the "not a real degree" phrasing. It is a valid bachelor's degree, but in corporate America an MBA plus relevant experience and other qualifications helps qualify you for a wide variety of jobs while a bachelor's in business is much weaker. Basically all it does is check the bachelors degree box. You're better off getting a STEM undergrad then doing an MBA next. If I had a bachelor's in business at 19 I'd probably find an entry level office job of some kind while working towards my MBA. Other qualifications can help too, I'm sure there are all sorts of financial advisor ones to buff your resume.

A_small_Chicken

In alternate timeline 2026, President Kamala Harris is giving a speech on Women's STEM that no one is paying attention to while SPY is at 800.

perceptive_AI

Creative people will make the most in the future not STEM nerds. AI will do all the STEM shit , creative people just to prompt their creative ideas into reality.

McKoijion

Trading geopolitics is basically the only field on earth where a lowly liberal arts major has an advantage over STEM majors and AI.

Evander85

What is STEM and why do I have an urge to blindly buy calls?

Sp0kenTruth

lol as someone in the industry, that 10years is more like 15. we also dont have enough engineers for this and a lot of the knowledge are starting to retire. And as a society that keeps being against education and also against immigration(lots of people willing to do the hard STEM field arent born here), i dont think we have enough to get it running quickly.

Riskismyapellido

Citron are the worlds biggest idiots ever. Dared to trust their STEM piece. It tanked like 87%

CarpenterAlive5082

Even if the company sponsored you, you went through a lottery system.  If you graduate with a STEM degree, you have 3 years to get lucky. If non-STEM it’s only one year.

GeoLogic23

Stem Holdings CEO in 2019 was Adam Berk. If you search for him in the Epstein files you see additional discussion about investing in Stem Holdings. >*3/7/2019: Adam Berk to David Mitchell* >*proforma cap table* David Mitchell forwards email to Epstein with attachment **Proforma\_Cap\_Table\_3.7.19-3.xlsx; STEM.Logo.pdf** >*3/7/2019: Jeffrey Epstein to David Mitchell* >*i dont see the convertible canandian debt issues mon=hs ago. or the new debt that we discussed.* Adam Berk the following day >*3/8/2019: Email with subject "cap table" with no text.* David Mitchell to Jeffrey Epstein with updated attachment Proforma\_Cap\_Table\_**3.8.19**.xlsx; STEM.Logo.pdf >*3/8/2019: I had him insert the bond offering , he has not closed it yet , but the money for the shares reserved on this cap table is in escrow*

blbd

As a life long software entrepreneur some truth on both sides. It is true that the existing software will add AI features. But it is also true that mature companies and software packages tend to slowly die of bureaucracy by becoming internally hidebound and sclerotic and thus experiencing semi-inevitable necrosis where they end up getting replaced by newer nimbler tools. The biggest disruption is less in the companies and more in the white collar talent pipelines. Because the AI is displacing many of the lower tier jobs that SMEs in STEM and the more technical business fields use in order to start their careers and develop their senior level experience. 

Lawineer

There's 30 trillion rials in circulation and 42 million generated daily, so from a pure supply side, it's never going to be worth shit. With that said, unlike Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, Iran actually has a chance of becoming a "western" nation in the sense of being a stable, high gdp, functional and stable economy. It has the cultural foundation and certainly the has the required STEM educated populace.

w33bwhacker

Yeah, GP is either a bot, or a human writing fanfic. There's absolutely no significant trend of western academics suddenly picking up their lives, learning Chinese/Japanese/Korean and moving to Asia -- unless they're already Chinese, which is a dirty little secret of how western universities have been paying the bills / abusing the help for the past couple of decades, and not a great situation in the first place. So what we really have, to the extent that there's any truth to the claim at all, is that more Chinese students are staying at home instead of coming to the US and paying full freight or being an underpaid graduate student. But if you're a work-eligible US STEM researcher, you have dramatically more income opportunity in the US than anywhere else in the world, and people know it.

Mr_RD

Not quite, it’s more nuanced than that and the positives for China far outweigh the negatives. Last year there was a lot of uncertainty when the tariffs were first announced and it hurt a very small amount of factories (almost negligible, when you look at the whole country), but they’ve since either pivoted or repurposed. This is against the backdrop of China securing more reliable trade partners, easing visa requirements to attract tourism and FDI, and rolling out new visa classes to attract highly educated foreigners that could contribute mainly across STEM fields. This is especially bad for the US, which is going the opposite way both in terms trade partners and visa requirements. The balance of power (economic/knowledge) is shifting away from the US and towards other countries, and we are living through it. Other countries are doing deals amongst themselves without the US at unprecedented rates.

Brawmethius

I'd bet mediocre white boy, C'd for degrees in something that can ancillary be called a "STEM" major and now very upset no one wants to hire him to scroll reddit through out the work day for 3x senior pay despite his lack of any experience.

Upset-Motor-2602

They are eating the dogs, eating the cats, and microwaving stinky foods in common areas...watch american business shutdown if H1Bs are banned. There aren't enough American STEM graduates with advanced degrees to do research.

wish-resign

China is outperforming the US in engineering in research because of the population difference. Of course country with +1 billion more population is gonna pump out many more research papers. That didn’t really measure the impact the aggregate research has economically. What could make a change is the emphasis on STEM and the cost of education. Engineers in China don’t get awarded Phds the traditional way any western person gets awarded one, it’s more based on practical applications of their knowledge rather than published dissertations which solves for cost and the amount of Phds a country can pump out.

jr350

I don’t think there is a “too late” but that’s not even the issue. We really don’t reward or fund STEM enough. I know a lot of engineers and scientists who left their fields for law and finance because there’s a lot more money to be made. Only comp sci pays well but that’s just a narrow field of big tech. So we’ve made huge strides in targeted advertising but not much that affects the flesh and steel of society. There’s also a huge cultural problem. Americans glamorize sports from a young age. This is a slow death of our own making.

ziggs_ulted_japan

You actually believe we have world class schooling? Math we rank 28th out of the 37 first world countries. We rank 12 in science and 9th in literacy. Almost every single Asian country outperforms us in every category. Our culture and our system is failing the American children. We will never stack up to Asia in any STEM category.

lichen-alien

I’m a college student in STEM and AI has helped immensely. It’s not very good at statistics or chemistry (which I do a lot), Claude definitely wins in the math and science sector but can be wildly off without informed fact checking. What I do notice is that there’s a large disparity with AI. Some students are using it and crushing assignments at a rapid pace, others are refusing to use it for moral reasons and I’m watching them get left behind. A lot of students don’t even know about Claude or the different ai systems besides chat GPT. I feel like I have a huge advantage using AI in my field and learning about it while it’s unfolding. I think the investment is warranted for the processing technology, but I think the cloud storage aspect is a waste. I foresee a large movement towards privacy prioritization, no one’s going to want to use over invasive cloud storage unless it’s for specific projects or school. A lot of these Mag7 companies are rapidly losing the trust of the public, which will have long term impacts.

slipsbups

I saw the same video and was wondering the same. Everything except the corrosiveness of CO2 is much MUCH better. The people commenting aren't in STEM so they don't know. Governments have a permanent hard on for green tech. It also benefits my line of work because of the superalloys involved.

Normal-Many-6479

Ok well high-end manufacturing like aerospace/oil & gas Machining/programming is STEM and companies DESPERATELY need good certified and with an engineering degree workers. Nice way to gate keep 😆 if you were good at your job you wouldn't be worried about other people getting into your field. I work at an Aerospace/oil&gas Job shop in Houston, and if I don't like my job or even if I don't like come being treated, I up and leave immediately and can get a new one in less than a week. But I guess that's just how trades skill works.

Normal-Many-6479

Awww damn all those needless overpaid govt jobs 😆 I work in the private sector in manufacturing as a machinist, and companies are BOOMING and hiring!!!! Just no one wants to hire shitty spoiled brats with a bachelor's in basket weaving for $100k/year right out of college. Learn a trade/skill or get a STEM degree and you'll make BANK 🤑 I'm a college drop out and make about $125k/year in Texas with excellent benefits, and I still have lots of room to grow!

D2Foley

You wake up and ask your friend, how has 🥭 fucked the market today? > 🥭? I don't think anybody cares about him anymore. Kamala is having a women in STEM event at the white house that nobody cares about and the DOW just hitv57,000.

Herban_Myth

STEM Cell injection/s?

Luc85

Mainly STEM work, tablets have been huge for many STEM programs for note-taking. I used one for my whole Bachelor's in engineering and would never look back. Things like engineering, math, chemistry, physics all require rather complex typing/writing. Being able to write equations or draw figures directly onto course note PDFs or slide decks is quite valuable. It's something that seems so minor, until you actually try it out.

HyperAstartes

With how AI is killing Junior Engineers careers in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if Chip Innovation will slow down as well. Currently the market for entry level engineers is bad, I wouldn't be surprised if Colleges will have lower enrollments for STEM fields.

djollied4444

STEM: [https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office](https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office)

Nexus-91

Close the boarders and make contributing people in STEM and infrastructure trade skills the only people approved to apply for citizenship.

Zuko2001

People are fuckin regarded, like genuinely the herd mentality is crazy. They won’t critically think about the value in their situation and will just parrot the current slogan. A 4 year college degree is a waste of time in SOME circumstances. If you know you’re a bit of a dipshit who has zero interest in school, don’t want to do a marketable STEM degree and are there to waste time and get laid or have the “college experience” while paying full tuition then you should absolutely pick up a trade or join the military compared with going to school. But for a lot of people’s goals college is a great way to get a white collar STEM job that is easy on your body if you’re willing to a put in a bit of mental work. Even better if you go to your local state school or do the 2+2 from your community college to state school. Phenomenal return on investment in that case, even if you choose not to go into STEM

Signatureshot2932

Yeah no that’s not happening. Europe is not inventing next Amazon, Google, Nvidia etc. it’s because of their work culture. All these companies have been employing talented STEM Indian and Chinese graduates that made products and services for their companies. This isn’t happening in Europe where the new push is 4 day work and where people start drinking at 3 pm in the name of work life balance.

mailwasnotforwarded

AI in my opinion can benefit all sectors of industry and it just depends on how well it gets implemented and utilized. Industries are too afraid of change or letting software take control when it comes to a lot of practices because they don't "trust" the software. I know for a fact that AI in the medical field is a limitless opportunity for improvements and it is a must focus. In nearly all manufacturing industries I feel like AI can benefit them but they will not all benefit immensely from it. Generative AI in my opinion is like someone who wants to get an arts degree versus a degree in a STEM field. It is useful in the entertainment/psychological fields but not so much for industrial use that keeps the world moving.

Standard-Top-5942

The year is 2026. Harris has just finished a picnic in the Rose Garden for young women in STEM. AI slop is banned on youtube. The Ukraine war has stopped. The US has increased taxes on the Mag7 by 1% and used those funds to eliminate malaria around the world saving about a 1 million children from death each year. Health insurance profits have been caped and those funds have been used to provide free healthcare to people who are employed but making under 100k per year. The S&P is over 7k.

Stunning-Use-7052

This guy was given the reins of the federal government and could have actually pressured the pres and congress to introduce a UBI. Instead he cut back on the safety net and destroyed jobs, particularly STEM and science jobs. He's bullshitting.

moose_the_kitten

Can't stop laughing with all these comments, you are so disconnected from reality: 1. "China cars cheap because of slave labor", dude have you been to any car factory? They are welding robots, machines, etc. China car cheap is because of supply chain, in Shenzhen you can get everything to make anything within walking distances. Also Chinese government stopped subsidized EVs last year because of worrying overproduction. 2. "China will steal all the IPs if they are here", you are acting if your glorified shithole country has anything left to steal, your left only worries about LGBTs and your right are nazis, your kids are so addictive to stupid trends like 6-7, nobody in this country is going STEM while China pumps out scientists and engineers like no tomorrow. 3. "China is preparing for wars", speaking like a true warmonger country in the human history, just this year your president kidnapped another country's presidents, and is waging a war against Greenland, Iran, etc. Chinese are mercantilism, they only care about making money, they may sell war machines but that is because they can profit. And your thought Chinese car makers will beg to come to US market, I mean with your TACO president and neoliberal in control, who want to waste money set up a billion-dollar factory just to be told get out in 4 years. The world does not only have 300M Americans, there are 8 billion peoples. Yes, you are a big market because of dollars and your military, but can you imagine if that is not the case anymore. Don't say it is impossible, anything goes up will come down.

Wolvshammy

It is moot, yes. Just to clarify though - it wasn't because he already paid it, it's because it was already DUE on those shares. If you won the lottery, you'd have a tax bill liability dated from the date of your win. When the state puts the money in yoru bank account you wouldn't owe an additional tax because you RECEIVED the funds. Tax bill due and tax bill paid both STEM from the same tax liability. Does that help?

MightyOm

I'm not angry. I'm warning you that you've been tricked. And the outcome is going to be horrible. You need to go to school and get a STEM degree with a focus in AI. And you need to take some economic classes too. It's been known for over a century that tariffs destroy a country's financial future.

Standard-Top-5942

The year is 2026 and President Harris has just concluded a young women in STEM event on the White House lawn. The S&P is at 7000 and the US is leading the world in using AI to bring free healthcare to the world.

MrNo_Balls

it sounds like you're still in high school if you think that is the only way to end up in the never ending rat race or homeless. We all think we are special during that time because of good grades or graduating from college with a STEM degree, but all of that does not guarantee anything unfortunately. good luck in life kid.

PugsAndHugs95

Yes I work in a STEM related jobs designing control systems. We regularly try all the major models to see if they’re worth integrating into parts of our tasks or workflows. So far no dice. All the stuff it’s good at (language, translation, transcription, image generation [Nano Banana Pro], etc…) doesn’t really help my day to day. I deal with exact solutions or specifications and programming all day. It’s cost us about 20% more labor hours to try to use it in our day to day work.

lmnop713

STEM

Shdwrptr

Most of my money went into ASTS and RKLB. I invested into some other growth companies I thought were interesting that basically all failed (or at least lost almost all value). Some have somewhat recovered by now but I sold for a large loss to recover what I could at the time. From what I remember, they were MVST (EV batteries, LICY (EV battery recycling), ORGN (green plastics), LCID (EV Car maker). I ended up making small amount of money, or at least only losing small amounts in SOFI and STEM.

SpaghetiCode

Thank you for showing my point: Israel receives the same \*economic aid\* as Egypt (money that doesn't go to military equipment), yet it has better engineers, doctors, and most other non-military-wise STEM professionals. It also receives less economic aid than the UK and India. This is astounding.

OMGnoogies

Tech, Chip design, Pharma, Medicine... Israel is a major player in most STEM fields

SpaghetiCode

It's a mix of many things: \- Israel has an intense academic scene (specifically in STEM). \- Lots of skilled professionals fled to Israel (from the USSR) due to antisemitism (similar to how German scientists fled to the USA in WW2). \- necessity-driven innovation (surrounded by enemies). \- strong government R&D support. All of these lead to a dense pool of engineers and scientists, creating vast opportunities for collaboration in the high-tech field. Similar pressure led Taiwan and Korea to be strong STEM hubs.

AntoniaFauci

Some of my best and worst FSLR and ENPH. I remain sure that someday America will join the rest of the world in realizing the free electricity from the sky is a good thing. And while FSLR is a favorite, the price of ENPH means it has more bounce potential. No idea what year or decade that might be though. Also some battery and related system plays. Things like MVST or STEM could erode to dust next year or just as easily triple. Who knows?

AMadWalrus

Ain't no way you're questioning the qualifications of one of the FOUNDERS of Salesforce cause his degree isn't STEM.

TTKnumberONE

I think good problem solving is a teachable skill. Going for a STEM degree and especially engineering is a good start. In this specific example I think it’s pretty dumb to judge a guy from his undergraduate degree from 1989. A simple scan of his resume would indicate he immediately went to work as a SWE for 5 years before starting his own cloud computing company and then immediately went to Salesforce as CTO, which he’s been for 26 years now. It literally doesnt matter what he did for undergrad. So yes, you’re right in that most CTOs have engineering backgrounds and most CEOs would probably want a CTO to have that type of background. In this case there’s a pretty clear reason none of that matters.

synapticrelease

Degrees matter when you’re trying to separate wheat from Chaff when you’re trying to narrow your selection of candidates. But it’s by no means a rule. It’s just a piece of paper telling you you did a thing. I know you know at least one person who got their degree that didn’t earn it. Well it flows both ways. Plenty of people are capable of many jobs outside of some highly specialized STEM stuff or legal professions where there really is an intellectual rigor. But by and large, any person capable of learning without a degree is still capable of learning.

Pornfest

Spoken as someone who never earned their STEM degree. Come back when you understand heap vs stack memory, or how degeneracy in energy eigenstates helps inform the industry to the limits of Moore’s law.

LordFedorington

I mean he did found Salesforce in 1999 so he built a billion dollar software company. I think that’s a better qualification for CTO than a STEM degree

dataCollector42069

this is why you are brainless looking at starts - you studied grammar instead of STEM

KANARYA79

Call STEM

SlidethedarksidE

Maybe you live in a rich area or aren’t willing to buy a starter home. But once you get past 50k a year & work in a STEM field lenders will line up for you.

biken2000

Chinese and Indian Americans are significantly overrepresented in U.S. STEM fields (engineering, computer science, math, medicine, research).

Stardust-1

I work in STEM R&D and have a pretty good view of what’s going on in both countries. I speak both languages, and a lot of my former classmates or lab mates are now founders or principle engineers at the top of their fields. Honestly, the U.S. has been falling behind for years—it’s just taken a while for people to notice. And even now, there’s still a ton of copium: “China only copies,” “Chinese people can’t innovate,” “Chinese companies are all hype.” You don’t need much critical thinking to see how weak those arguments are. A country that produces almost 10× the number of STEM grads and PhDs, graduated from good universities btw—and where many are willing to work 80-hour weeks for relatively low pay—is obviously going to outcompete and out-innovate over time. That’s just math and incentives. But this is a stocks sub. If the market is still running on denial, why wouldn’t I make money off it? By the time the U.S. really comes to terms with reality, I’ll have more than enough saved to retire wherever I want. So honestly… why should I care?

Zuko2001

University has become such a joke, so many majors are absolutely useless and postgrad degrees even more so. Even within many STEM fields graduate degrees aren’t the way to more money. Only do a masters/PhD in fields like the sciences if you have a deep passion for the work and understand you’re getting financially shafted.

tachyonvelocity

I've always said, an underappreciated bear case for semis is that China will increasingly take market share from Western semi companies. There is an extreme determination for China to develop edge semis, and considering the amount of STEM grads and funding, it is very likely China will do so, just a matter of time. The bear case is that many semis have high exposure to the Chinese market, they made a ton of money from Chinese consumers, who are the biggest consumers of chips in the world btw. That China won't be able to do this is Western propaganda, just consider the fact that OPEN AI scientists are literally 30% of Chinese descent, gives you an idea of the potential of future Chinese semis.

slimjones444

3 energy stocks i watch all started reversal at the same time. FLNC NXXT STEM Very interesting to say the least

movdqa

They have a 2 MW experimental that's been running since 2024. Another five years to develop a commercial version seems reasonable. They are under a lot of pressure to electrify for national security and they are taking an all of everything approach with massive solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, coal production. I don't count the Chinese out given what they are producing in research output and STEM graduates and they now have top-ranked universities ahead of MIT and Stanford. They added 277 GW of solar in 2024. They added 14 GW of hydro in 2024. 76 GW of wind in 2023. And they're on a pace of adding 6-10 conventional nuclear reactors per year.

MasonReedShadow9142

STEM and ENPH are solid names here. NXXT is smaller but interesting

slendermanwrites

Theres plenty plays to choose from, from top of my head PWR, STEM, NXXT, ICLN and so many more

minibrusselsprouts

There’s one more factor and that is people. China is churning out engineers like nobody’s business as they value STEM subjects more than the west. A lot of the engineers at the top US AI labs are ethically Chinese. See Meta’s superintelligence team for example.

dapi331

Yep. 400,000 OPT visa holders taking ENTRY LEVEL post-grad jobs, almost entirely STEM. 730,000 H1-Bs taking high paying jobs. Then you have their spouses and children automatically getting visas via H-4. And then maybe 10 million illegals here mainly employed by greedy employers who also don’t want to pay American wages, driving down American employment, but these won’t be included in layoff stats for obvious reasons.

SomeSamples

I would venture it is more than during Covid. Especially in the STEM career fields.

LeatherInspector2409

I have a STEM PHD. I still make typing errors on here. I put in less effort when I'm shit posting than I do when I'm doing my job.

chf_gang

well that depends on how you define engineer? He has a STEM degree and he's probably a lot more capable than most of the 'real engineers' out there

chargedcapacitor

Maybe primary schooling should do more to prepare young adults for higher education, so they have a better idea what direction they want to go. As it stands, the US still has a deficit for all STEM careers.

HugeAd5056

The really surprising thing about this is you’re saying finance majors don’t teach options. I don’t know the courses for finance, but I can tell you any basic STEM degree will likely teach you plenty of calculus. I did calc all the way through partial derivatives but can’t imagine why you’d need it at all for options. The math required for options trading is basic algebra lol. All the greeks are just algebra. Statistics is the core of estimating which direction a stock will go, but do you really think you need to major in it? Just let the experts show you their analyses… follow a few people you think are smarter than you and call it peer review. That’s not math but it is what we do in science when we call it “peer review.” And scientists know well not to be an expert in everything. This is why throughout an entire PhD some scientists will study just one problem. So they can know it better than everyone and write a ground shattering dissertation. Everyone else just reads it. Peer review might be the best analytical skill beyond the basics. But what do I know lol. Ask Warren Buffet.

A_small_Chicken

In an alternate timeline President Kamala is at a boring conference to get girls into STEM while we are enjoying a healthy economy.

DolanTheCaptan

People can be very thoughtful and informed within their specific field, but those skills don't necessarily translate to general curiosity, critical thinking, or research skills. It's part of why I am really annoyed when some people say that college is useless now that so much material is online. Most people need some kind of guided edcuation, and do not have the critical thinking, or structure, or discipline (or any combination of those 3) to actually get as much out of learning on their own without the supporting structure. And I'd consider myself one of those, I have plenty of ideas for personal projects, but I've only really done shit when it was required by some structure, be it uni, work, or STEM team challenges.

NOT_MartinShkreli

Most of them barely learned math and without STEM degree, you’re toast. Smart people go into trades and learn. Then start a business and show up on time and get things done within budget and by the deadline … but that’s damn near impossible to find

ppwalz

I like $ZSPC because it’s found a solid base around $0.72. They acquired BlocksCAD this year to boost STEM education tools, which should start paying off. Seeing strong software adoption and revenue retention at 131%, with Q3 software growth despite an overall YoY revenue dip from a large prior-year order and funding delays.

ppwalz

I like $ZSPC because it’s found a solid base around $0.72. They acquired BlocksCAD this year to boost STEM education tools, which should start paying off. Seeing strong software adoption and revenue retention at 131%, with Q3 software growth despite an overall YoY revenue dip from a large prior-year order and funding delays.

nocryinginthecasino

80% of US workforce is unskilled labor, including all those with bullshit none STEM college degrees.

Great_Employment_560

Fuck these guys ruining Tech/Engineering as a viable STEM field. Absolutely annoyed

MHWGamer

what are you expenses within a year? i am from STEM and make 70k in my country (early in career and it is very good for 35h in a week), but I think my bosses make like 120k or so and their boss (from the whole factory) maybe 180k I dunno. Top managers from my company make more obviously. The point is that life is roughly 1/3 cheaper than the life of general america, depending where you life 380k could still be a lot or you life e.g. in San Francisco and the expenses are so crazy to me that from 380k (or lets say 200k) there isn't that much left in the end. If I would make 380k in a year, I would be ridiculous rich for a normal life (230k after tax, crazy city flats are maybe 6k a month = 72k, + leasing a porsche for 2.5k= 30k, any other luxury and food 50k and you still have 80k left every single year to invest = BONKERS)

C0II1n

The more I realized is STEM is really for the physics geeks. If you aren’t a physics geek then the juice isn’t really worth the squeeze. I am a physics geek but even still…

Thunder_Nipples

I should've gone to law school instead of STEM. All these years don't matter when your 60+ year-old boss just tells you to "solve it with AI" instead lmao. The guy has never had to solve a technical problem in his life. I'm the real fucking 🤡

n24re

I am with you on all but the labor shortage. There is a labor surplus in most of the STEM sectors. The Immigration restrictions need to come in faster to make a meaningful impact. I am seeing a shortage of healthcare, trades and basic manual labor but a huge surplus in IT,Engineering...basically anything STEM with the exception of Medical Sciences.

rn_journey

Is the model Y the cheap one? The market that would be totally dominated by Chinese manufacturers which now have better technology, if not then EU cars. "Full self driving", hyperloop, DOGE, boring tunnels, roadster, solar roofs, humanoid robots, robotaxi, rockets to nowhere that blow up, year after year promising "soon", every single deadline missed or faked, lack of white papers or scientific method, removing lidar, failing at moon race mission (he will likely cause China to win), ousted from first CEO position (Paypal), cheap model 3. Cybertruck was late and a piece of shit (aluminum uni-body swapped to dangerous glued on sheet metal). Hiding Tesla crash figures. Claiming we will be going to Mars soon. His first company was a lucky .com bubble venture and had no revenue and did nothing, he has no STEM degree (then faked it). OpenAI scandal. Stupid salutes whether Nazi or not. Drug abuse. Came from Rolls Royce money but claims to be normal, self-made, and not out of touch. Twitter is destroyed and the antithesis of what he claimed he wanted. Calling rescuers "pedo" because his help was refused. Conspiracy theories. Lies lies lies lies lies lies lies. People are sick to death of it, and anyone who can't see it or carries on with it is either too sheltered in a bubble, or too caught up in a Stockholm Syndrome type effect to see how lies, manipulation, cheating, stealing, and being proud of being a sociopath (lacking empathy) will destroy the US. It is not a sustainable society. Why? All because he forced electric cars to become popular a few years earlier than they would have anyway? We had electric cars 100 years ago. "FSD" is just a driver assistance system.

GuyOnTheMoon

Wow what a well written comment. Brilliantly articulated, and it resonates deeply. It highlights a fundamental divergence in priorities that I see as a battle of underlying ideologies. China, for decades, made massive investments in its human capital through building world-class infrastructure, prioritizing STEM education, and using policies like the one-child policy to strategically engineer its society (regardless of one's view on its ethics). The core belief was that a highly skilled and organized populace would be the ultimate driver of growth. The West, by contrast, placed its faith almost exclusively in monetary capital and the dominance of the US dollar. While it's easy to blame short-sighted or greedy leaders (and they certainly play a role) the real failure is systemic. In a system where profit is the prioritized metric, investment naturally flows toward what is most immediately lucrative, not necessarily what is most productive or sustainable long-term. This can lead to economic bubbles (as we’re seeing now) where capital is funneled into speculative assets based on the belief that private companies will always generate returns, rather than into foundational public goods. And that's the key: the West is treating AI as just another bubble, focused on scaling LLMs for commercial gain. But the real race isn't about model size; it's about human adoption. The winner won't be whoever builds the smartest AI, but which society best integrates it into the fabric of daily life, education, and public service. It's societal engineering versus technical engineering, and once again, we're betting on the wrong horse.

Rufawana

Well that, and the fact that China has more engineers and STEM graduates by a significant margin.

namafire

Those are non-sequitars. Look up the STEM under and unemployment rate for STEM or at minimum college graduates

unia_7

What are you talking about, even if we have 4x as many STEM graduates, it's still a drop in a bucket. And who told you STEM graduate jobs won't be affected.

Timo-the-hippo

China has 4x per capita STEM graduate rate compared to the US. There are absolutely enough ai-proof jobs but we are massively behind on education/training.

asxnullified

I've thoroughly enjoyed your DDs and general writing style. And I fully concur: Biotech is a massive risk, especially when the STEM types (like myself) try to "redefine business" through product development only. And your philosophy of them being able to handle the little things first is reassuring, but idk; Biotech is always iffy.

Kenosis94

I work in the field on the STEM side and you did a great job explaining why I have all of one or two biotech companies on my watch list. The other thing worth mentioning is that the FDA is not the only "FDA" pretty much every country has some equivalent and some show reciprocity to each other or approve stuff under a shared organization but there is no universal alignment. The only universal elements of pharma regulations are that they are slow as hell and expensive to comply with. If you've ever thought environmental regulators made shit expensive, then you shouldn't even think about anything involving pharma regulators. As an aside, I have lots of cures for cancer, but nobody seems willing to accept the side effects. We'd have it handled if it weren't for all the complaining about death and disfigurement from the regulators...

Sensitive-Radish-292

The most important thing to understand is what "volatility" means. High volatility can mean it will shoot up a lot from the EV ... but also that i can shoot down a lot from the EV as well. It's hard because stochastic mathematics is usually taught in universities... and if it's not a STEM major then the quality is bad.

ILookLikeKristoff

Yeah this is a disappointing trend of capitalists realizing there's more money to be made by ignoring a huge chunk of their demographic and focusing on the whale customers. They could give a shit if you go a few times a year, they want STEM DINK Doordash addicts that spend $100/night 3-4 times a week

Terrible-Tadpole6793

Americans are underrepresented in STEM programs because the universities are giving all the spots away to people from across the world. Not against people from across the world coming to school but Americans not being able to support their own economy is the root of all the societal craziness that we're dealing with today. I'm an American with two STEM masters degrees.

PlataoPlomo19

STEM programs at American universities have an overrepresentation of foreign workers for societal reasons, especially in Master's programs. That pipeline of students enters the workforce in a related role to what they studied. Also, employers in sectors where local talent is abundant (e.g., investment banking) are from personal experience, very reluctant to sponsor foreign workers while tech is the opposite

LurkerFailsLurking

Being an immigrant doesn't make you magically well informed. "No truth?" Let's go point by point. >we're not investing in next gen infrastructure [https://www.top1000funds.com/2025/09/public-private-partnerships-key-to-fixing-us-infrastructure/](https://www.top1000funds.com/2025/09/public-private-partnerships-key-to-fixing-us-infrastructure/) [https://www.govtech.com/transportation/report-finds-infrastructure-funding-spurs-jobs-investment](https://www.govtech.com/transportation/report-finds-infrastructure-funding-spurs-jobs-investment) >we're not funding research [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-courts-hampered-earlier-efforts-trump-wants-to-cancel-more-funding-during-shutdown](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-courts-hampered-earlier-efforts-trump-wants-to-cancel-more-funding-during-shutdown) [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/climate/trump-climate-science-funding.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/climate/trump-climate-science-funding.html) >we're making it cost prohibitive and unattractive to bring highly skilled workers here, [https://www.boundless.com/blog/trump-administration-to-propose-new-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visa-applications](https://www.boundless.com/blog/trump-administration-to-propose-new-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visa-applications) [https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/09/donald-trumps-fortress-economy-is-starting-to-hurt-america](https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/09/donald-trumps-fortress-economy-is-starting-to-hurt-america) >we're gutting our educational system when we were already falling behind in the STEM skills that have fueled market dominance for the last half century, [https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5572489/trump-special-education-department-funding-layoffs-disabilities](https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5572489/trump-special-education-department-funding-layoffs-disabilities) [https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/trumps-higher-education-crackdown-visa-revocations-dei-bans-lawsuits-and-funding-cuts](https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/trumps-higher-education-crackdown-visa-revocations-dei-bans-lawsuits-and-funding-cuts) >we're adopting isolationist, erratic trade policies that are permanently cutting US producers off from the markets that have been a major source of revenue for decades.... [https://www.wpr.org/news/farmers-trump-trade-war-bailout-harvest](https://www.wpr.org/news/farmers-trump-trade-war-bailout-harvest) [https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/ohio-family-farmers-describe-life-under-trump-tariffs-were-in-a-hell-of-a-mess-here/](https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/ohio-family-farmers-describe-life-under-trump-tariffs-were-in-a-hell-of-a-mess-here/) [https://sentientmedia.org/trumps-tariffs-are-hurting-soybean-farmers/](https://sentientmedia.org/trumps-tariffs-are-hurting-soybean-farmers/) And I didn't even mention how Trump's policies are hurting US manufacturing and busineses [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-16/trumps-tariffs-american-businesses](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-16/trumps-tariffs-american-businesses) I had to cut sources because my comment was too long. lol

UnderstandingThin40

“we're not investing in next gen infrastructure, we're not funding research, we're making it cost prohibitive and unattractive to bring highly skilled workers here, we're gutting our educational system when we were already falling behind in the STEM skills that have fueled market dominance for the last half century, we're adopting isolationist, erratic trade policies that are permanently cutting US producers off from the markets that have been a major source of revenue for decades....” This is literally all false lmaooo. Only Reddit believes this 

LurkerFailsLurking

I'm not puzzled anymore. The S&P 500 still has 500 names on it, but 75% of its gains this year have come from a handful of AI stocks whose own CEOs are starting to say publicly that it's a bubble. On top of that, being up 15% in a year where the dollar is down 12% is not impressive. Especially when you look at the alternatives. Other regional indexes are beating the shit out of the S&P. VXUS, AAXJ, VGK are all up about 25% and AFK is up 50%. Other countries' markets are doing much, much better than the US'. Meanwhile, the US' fundamentals just aren't there for long term growth, we're not investing in next gen infrastructure, we're not funding research, we're making it cost prohibitive and unattractive to bring highly skilled workers here, we're gutting our educational system when we were already falling behind in the STEM skills that have fueled market dominance for the last half century, we're adopting isolationist, erratic trade policies that are permanently cutting US producers off from the markets that have been a major source of revenue for decades.... What I was saying back in April was that you can't just look at charts, you have to think about what the numbers actually mean in terms of the real world. And it's really bad still.

BedBathAndBukkake69

Worked at McDonald's. Was poor because I was being paid like shit. Didnt like it. Thought "how do I improve my situation?" That's the tl;dr of it. Now 12 years later I've got one STEM degree with a second on the way, make more than 4X what McDonald's paid me, and my autism became the obsessively reading about the stock market and quantitative finance variety. 

Motor_in_Spirit79

I make 18x what I did 20 years ago. I wouldn’t think of myself as the cream of the crop because 20 years ago the cost of living was waaaay cheaper, and I didn’t have the dependents I do today. China has risen to challenge all the world superpowers and that is commendable, but it doesn’t happen without The U.S. You kind of just pointed out why the U.S. stays relevant. Other nations can’t keep their shit together long enough to challenge the dollar. It was supposed to be the Euro, until it wasn’t. Now BRICS, who have turned out to be as useful as a Discover Card in the 90’s. Hint: it wasn’t accepted anywhere. Then crypto currency. Now they are saying a one world currency… and round and round we go. If China wants to become the finance center of the world they are going to have to change their approach and adopt more capitalistic policies. You mention their STEM graduates. Many of whom go off to live and work abroad. Why wouldn’t they? Their earning potential here is insane, and they quickly get access to open doors that guarantee their comfort for life. Why would Trump remove all tariffs when tariffs have always been in place? They are an intricate part of international trade between all nations.

luv2block

so China has massive capita per GDP growth, they are the 2nd wealthiest country in the world, they have more STEM graduates than anyone, they have all the commodities they need to sustain society (minus energy), and they control pretty much all global supply chains. hehe. ya. okay, America is large and in charge.

luv2block

The US is only the cash cow cuz they have a money printer, and that's coming to an end. Whether it's manufacturing, or raw materials, or refined materials, or STEM graduates... China is rapidly moving to replace the US. But regardless of ones view on that, the idea that the US controls China at this point is utterly ridiculous. The only leverage the US still has is its military. The rest of the world is playing nice (relatively speaking) with the US in the hopes the US doesn't go insane and start attacking everyone militarily, ultimately leading to a nuclear war.

Sensitive-Radish-292

# Use your brain apes Alright as someone who actually understands what quantum computers do, let me shine some light here: \- First of all I don't disagree with the point that all this hype around quantum computers is currently non-sensical. I completely agree with that. \- What I'm gonna argue about is the fact that OP is a complete retard when it comes to understanding what quantum computers are good for ... and honestly I'm not surprised - I don't expect someone who studied business administration to actually understand anything from a STEM field. Let's first talk about the part where he says "Quantum computers are useless unless you work with prime numbers 'n' shit" # Ever heard about cryptography? The moment any company reaches the point where they will have a powerful, working quantum computer what will most likely happen is that there will be swift action taken to make this go public. The main reason why is that suddenly most of the encryption that you use will suddenly become useless, unless it's quantum-resistant. There are quantum-proof encryption schemes - for example most lattice-based cryptography is quantum-proof. So saying that unless you do hrrr and drrr quantah computahs 'r' uselezz is f*cking regarded. # Unstructured database searches Another great example use-case of quantum algorithms is searching through an unstructured database this can solve many huge fucking problems. NP Search problems are a good example. Optimization problems in general, data mining etc. the list goes on. # There are other usecases but that's not the point The point is to give you a little bit insight into the fact that he has no f*cking idea what the technology is about. He has no f*cking idea about the advancements made, since he didn't even mention other companies, like MSFT. So use your brain, and realize that he's just using his authority to sway your judgement.