"This happens, they say, by depressing wages in S&T fields and turning potential science and technology innovators into management professionals and hedge fund managers."
The number of science graduates has very little to do with the salary differential between "technology innovators" and hedge fund managers. Reducing the number of science graduates will most likely just reduce the number of people who remain in the field, since it would effectively boost the pay of hedge fund managers.
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"This happens, they say, by depressing wages in S&T fields and turning potential science and technology innovators into management professionals and hedge fund managers." The number of science graduates has very little to do with the salary differential between "technology innovators" and hedge fund managers. Reducing the number of science graduates will most likely just reduce the number of people who remain in the field, since it would effectively boost the pay of hedge fund managers.