Yep. why struggle doing research when you can make 500K a year writing stock trading algorithms.

…because research contributes to make a better society for everyone compared to scamming people with overhyped stocks?

But yes, in reality, the trend seems to be finance first, if you can get in.

diluted with a bunch of money-hungry STEM’s who were never even that good at engineering.

That’s all the STEMs now. The actual competent ones are on Wall Street.

Not remotely accessible, though. Would need root access.

Didn’t even know it was for sale.