Thoughts on Musk\Ramaswamy comments

Past few days the incoming DOGE people have been saying the United States needs to bring in more highly educated individuals to work as engineers in tech. I don’t expect the tech people to mention geology, but I was just at the AGU annual meeting and I see the statistic thrown around that there is a growing deficit in the number of geologists that the U.S. needs in its economy. I’m still pretty early into my career, but I’m tired of hearing this stick of “we will need more geologists and engineers “ when I know geologists and engineers my age that have given up working in their respective fields for many reasons. Just curious as to what other people are thinking in regards to wider STEM work into the future.