Great post. Just a small comment to:

"...we need to push more people to science based and computer fields because those are the jobs that will run the future."

The only pushing needed is for scientific education investment to be rewarded according to its value; something markets do. Whenever there's a top down "push," like there was for physicists in the 1950s and 60s, we usually end up with oversupply and wasted careers; most of the mid-century newly minted physicists ended up with government jobs. Some helped innovate, many did what bureaucrats end up doing...