If your parents spent a ton of money on you getting you educated and you got a degree in data science. Would you go work in a factory? Would your Chinese parents allow you to work in a factory? Remember china has a huge culture of being about face. They want to say “my son works as a neurologist” not “my son works in the assembly line at Foxconn”.

Most people in the west who get a degree as a lawyer don’t go work at McDonald’s for the next 40 years, despite the fact we have too many lawyers. They choose to not work at all until they can find a job with their degree.

You do get a lot of disaffected former data science majors in that scenario though. At least in the short term.