Finance, consulting and tech are gobbling up top students

6 points by keeganjw 6 months ago | 5 comments
  • suryajena 6 months ago
    >Are they abandoning their dreams—and does that matter?

    It definitely matters, ask any developing nation about the brain drain and you know the reasons why individuals do it, it's a net gain for them but a loss for their nation. Now take all those reasoning and apply to the brain drain within disciplines and domains. All disciplines and domains are important and need significant contribution to continuously innovate.

    Even at an individual scale people should do what they like/or are naturally good at, only then they will be able to do great work.

    • gsf_emergency 6 months ago
      I'm guessing what you hit on is exactly why UK and US hit peak (economic, but I believe also structural) complexity in the 1960s: the beginning of "tech", "VCs", &c
      • quantified 6 months ago
        "Dreams"- no one who works at the Economist expects dreamers to participate in the world with the same respect and privilege level that higher levels of money brings. Why is this even a story?
        • gsf_emergency 6 months ago
          Regwalled.

          Faction at James Wilson's that want to take the fight to the FT? (Imho the FT has what Americans might call a left wing slant for ages, but which appeals to maybe 50% of it's paying readers )

      • gjvc 6 months ago
        Nothing new there