And thus, we lose Berkeley Ph.Ds in nuclear physics to hedge funds and MIT computer scientists capable of delivering computing to 6 billion people to derivative manipulation on Wall Street.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/05/innovation-ayn-rand-intelligent-technology-capitalism.html

This hits home with me.  I started college as a physics major.  Switched to EE my 2nd semester of freshman year because I didn’t think there was any money in physics.   Interesting.