[gogobio]

I've been in CS professionally for 12 years. This a perfect example of normal distribution at work. By increasing the population, you simply increase the number of people across the entire curve, bumping up the number of high, medium, low paid, as well as unemployed folks with the degrees. The real issue has always been greed - people disproportionately dove into CS because like all hype movements it promised significant income after just 2-4 years, and sometimes not even that, but a month long bootcamp. Once it was sold to the masses as a get rich quick scheme - the disappointment paired with a number of low-achieving grads tripling was unavoidable.

[wakawaka28]

It definitely was oversold, but I don't think it's right to fault people for picking CS because of the money. That is essentially the point of getting a job, and most people do not actually get to live their "passion" -- even those of us who DO truly have a passion for programming. Most careers are only as good as the jobs you get, and most jobs are not amazing. If I have to do something I'm not crazy about, we're talking about degrees of misery and cost/benefit ratios, and that is very personal.