[roenxi]

> For whom is this a good thing, and for whom not?

Potentially literally everyone is better off. That happens sometimes in economics. Everyone not in STEM is better off and if the STEM people think they are getting a bad deal they can go do something else that is getting a good deal.

[throwbadubadu]

Understood, as everyone is better off with late stage neoliberal predator capitalism I guess :D

[roenxi]

I get the impression you might be trying for sarcasm, but unironically yes. People living in "late stage neoliberal predator capitalism" are, despite it all, still usually much better off than people outside it. I'd still rather be poor in the US than China, for example.