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by corndoge 6 days ago
We need to incentivize more kids to get pavement design degrees to increase the supply
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The reason US is in this mess is because in the 50s and 60s there was a liberal arts education boom in the US, and STEM education boom in India/China.
Anyone educated in the 50s and 60s has retired

And in China they were far more occupied with a cultural revolution than any form of advanced education. At best you could argue that they were teaching basic literacy to more people.

We had a STEM education boom in the last decade in the US