[alesua93]

> So, the relativity of "oh no I wish our best and brightest did something more productive with their time" becomes extremely apparent very quickly. Is it really that tempting to debate when you know the outcome of the debate?

I'd argue that the fact that we got to the point where the options are what you described might be an indicative that they (we) were never the best and brightest in the first place.

[vmception]

I’ll take that

Its more that other people say that about a very few select industries and trades, I've heard this many many times levied at the finance industry and the last two decades thats been specifically software engineers (the “quants”) at finance firms, software eating all