>>13139885What actually drove this is the British upper class continuing insistence on demoting engineers to non-professionals. Basically what was happening is that engineers were getting paid more than manangement, because they provided more value to the company and could therefore easily negotiate higher salaries by simply garnering offer letters from the competition. The better engineer you were the more valuable you were. It was a great meritocratic system that saw immense economic growth. But they couldn't have that. You were supposed to be born into your class after all. And the managerial class felt especially threatened since their own jobs were relatively unproductive and everyone could see that.
So this is what led to the continuing insistence in immigration, diversity etc. Managers would put up engineering job postings that are rediculously underpaid (or more commonly not even advertise the salary). Then when no white engineer applied they would run to parliament and bitch about a labour shortage. They would import Indians with tech quals to fill roles meant for engineers. Predictably these companies quickly lost their competativeness and safety standards, but not before management looted the companies by paying out bonusses from the pool of lowered salaries. The biggest companies are bailed out (feeding the bonusses of management) and the rest of manufacturing simply died when it couldn't be exported to China. Engineers themselves moved to tech where their worth is paid or filled into consulting firms and/or started their small manufacturing companies.
Basically all the casual dress, diversity shit etc. you see in public STEM positions is still this eternal struggle to try and suppress engineering wages.
Just start your own aerospace company and sell expertise to NASA OP, this is how the system works now and it is far from a bad deal for us.
