Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
I moved into IT from "formal" engineering and its always frustrated me that a job that involves working on extremely expensive engines using upper level college math gets paid almost nothing compared to people who change colors on a webpage every once in a while. I've been on floors where multi-million dollar pieces of equipment are used to produce parts with obscene levels of precision being used by expert machinists making 80k a year who risk their own personal safety making these parts.<p>I have EE friends with master degrees who design PCBs that are printed millions of times that struggle to afford rent.<p>It makes no sense. Why is web software so easy to make money in? Why do we value hard engineering so little?