Computer tech is leaving for overseas, but medicine and other research is still here...because the us govt pays for a good deal of that.
I personally think part of the trouble with the liberal arts degrees is the number of folk going to college with no real desire, just the knowledge that college is the place to be after high school, delaying actual thought into ones life choices for another 4 years. Not that no 18 year old knows what they want to be, just that assuming every 18 year old does is as silly as assuming every 1 year old can walk or talk. average first word is 1, from 9mo to 14 or even later. But we don't send all 1 year olds off to grammer school.
As a person grows the normal age for learning/acquiring skills becomes a wider average (ride bike from 4-8 or never) read from 2.5-8 or later, drive car from 15-20 or never...but when kids get older we are less understanding than when they were younger (no one faults my 16 month old for not saying as much as her big bro at 16 months, but just try to explain a 7 year old who can't read up to average....)
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