Surely a stem degree and an opportunity to get a post graduate stem degree in a blazing hot tech market is worth more than $30.
Do you really think GP and a venezuelan asylee have same amount of privilege because they both came over with $30 in their pockets. Yet that was the logic GP used to justify his lack of privilege.
You guys over there seem to be treating degree like the only way to better life
Degree is not worth this much.
So the biggest salary gap is at the beginning and later everything is up to the skill
If you want fancy jobs like Jane Street then "just" degree from random school may not be enough
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/10/11/new-...
People with degrees, especially in stem are small (in compare to all ppl) group of people who are willing to put multi year, intense effort studying non trivial things
So yea, just those traits make them more likely to earn more
Go ahead and give degree to somebody without skills in good paying jobs and see whether that person will be milions ahead too