Of course governments and current social elites from all parts of the world want us overworked and underpaid!
"STEM workers" can be the base of the new "over-middle" class - educated, well-off and with good social mobility plus political mobility and geographical mobility (this is fucking dangerous for governments and elites!).
You wouldn't want the class underneath you to have "well rested minds" and time to think about the world and their proper place in it (at the very top that is, because same as in old military societies warriors were the "natural rulers", in the new info-tech society techies will be the new "natural rulers"). Let's overwork them and stress them with unemployment so they don't get any funny ideas in their heads...
Though to be honest, all this sounds good for us STEM workers outside US in lots of indirect ways... I'll bet US will have a nice civil war / revolution soon, and more immigrants moving in any directions will only mean that the enlightening ideas from such a conflict will be easily exported worldwide.
"STEM workers" can be the base of the new "over-middle" class - educated, well-off and with good social mobility plus political mobility and geographical mobility (this is fucking dangerous for governments and elites!).
You wouldn't want the class underneath you to have "well rested minds" and time to think about the world and their proper place in it (at the very top that is, because same as in old military societies warriors were the "natural rulers", in the new info-tech society techies will be the new "natural rulers"). Let's overwork them and stress them with unemployment so they don't get any funny ideas in their heads...
Though to be honest, all this sounds good for us STEM workers outside US in lots of indirect ways... I'll bet US will have a nice civil war / revolution soon, and more immigrants moving in any directions will only mean that the enlightening ideas from such a conflict will be easily exported worldwide.