For sure that cost reduction is a factor in how much press was pushed toward this. But, this also is a market force that happens when demand is high and supply is low. Value of the labor goes up or down depending on the supply of people to meet the demand.
I highly suspect silicon valley elites pushed this as they have pushed for immigration into the US by skilled workers/engineers.
There was already saturation by the 2010s, MIT and IEEE wrote about the stem gap myth as a wage suppression scheme
For sure that cost reduction is a factor in how much press was pushed toward this. But, this also is a market force that happens when demand is high and supply is low. Value of the labor goes up or down depending on the supply of people to meet the demand.
I highly suspect silicon valley elites pushed this as they have pushed for immigration into the US by skilled workers/engineers.