I do believe that there exists an insane amount of (STEM) questions where there exist very good reasons to do research on - much, much more than is currently done.

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And by the way:

> This is what happens when Silicon Valley execs, trying to make their employees more replaceable, call for more STEM education

More STEM education does not make the employees more replaceable. The reason why the Silicon Valley execs call for more STEM education is rather that

- they want to save money training the employees,

- they want to save money doing research (let rather the taxpayer pay for the research).

So what you're saying is that they push for STEM education to make their employees more replaceable...?

A general rule of thumb is rather that better education and/or specialized knowledge makes employees nore productive, but also less replaceable.

Only when they are the only ones that have that knowledge, not when teaching it becomes rote.

> - they want to save money training the employees,

> - they want to save money training the employees,

> - they want to save money doing research (let rather the taxpayer pay for the research).

means they want to offload costs to the public in order to increase profits, which is what I said above.