A lot of the Occupy Wall Street crowd are young people right out of college with large student loan debts who can't find good paying jobs like they see on "30 Rock" or whatever shows are putting silly notions in their heads.
One wonders what these kids studied in college that they can't find jobs? I'm pretty sure there's not a lot of work out there for Womyn's Studies majors. At least work that pays more than the minimum wage.
A new study (pdf file) finds that if you want a good paying job you need to study science, technology, engineering, or math, the so-called "STEM" majors.
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in his blog:
Both undergraduate and graduate STEMS earn roughly 50% more than their non-STEM counterparts. Longtime guild-industries like academia, medicine and law will stick around, and at the top these fields will still offer good pay, but those top slots are going to get harder to find.
Stem students face better odds. Rather than be replaced by robots, STEM graduates may design or work with them.
(Yes, there is a good chance that teachers, doctors, and lawyers will be replaced by technology within those kids' lifetimes.)(And the good news is, robots don't have unions and tend not to give to Democrats.)
But a word of warning: you have to study and do homework if you want to take a STEM major in college. No time for protesting or even socializing. And the weekly kegger at the Phi Tau house? Forget it.
In college you could always spot the non-STEM majors: they were the ones protesting whatever the latest thing leftists were protesting. Me, I had to study differential equations and fluid dynamics.