This is just basic systems thinking (I am re-reading "the Goal" sorry ...)
We know overall we need more STEM based jobs because that drives innovation and invention and wealth.
So we educate people in STEM.
But when they arrive, we have failed to arrange incentives to grow new industries or expand use of STEM in current ones.
It's a bit like taking 100 newly graduated astronomers to the observatory, and when they say sorry our last telescope is broke, just telling the 100 go plough fields, we are pretty sure the sun just goes round the earth once a year. We'll be fine.
We know overall we need more STEM based jobs because that drives innovation and invention and wealth.
So we educate people in STEM.
But when they arrive, we have failed to arrange incentives to grow new industries or expand use of STEM in current ones.
It's a bit like taking 100 newly graduated astronomers to the observatory, and when they say sorry our last telescope is broke, just telling the 100 go plough fields, we are pretty sure the sun just goes round the earth once a year. We'll be fine.