We have a problem. There is a generation of young people, now entering the workforce, who have become disillusioned with the largely unrealized lofty ambitions of Big Tech.

Yes, these young people have been raised with this technology and accept it as part of daily life. But for them it holds neither magic nor promise.

Increasingly, many of these young people want to free themselves from Big Tech and it’s demands of loyalty. They want a life lived more on their own terms, working with physical materials and time honored processes. They want to grow food, weld metal, make things with their hands.

But Big Tech is a hungry monster. It insists that young people enter STEM careers. It demands that they use established platforms and no others. It tries to make sure they don’t think for themselves, that they just become more bricks in the wall.

It’s a problem.

There will be a backlash. Those who are willful enough will resist the demand to enter a STEM career. They will become artists, musicians, farmers. Big Tech will complain about how there are not enough trained workers, that America will lose its business edge.

Whether society chooses to make these free thinking young people feel bad about their choices, or instead embraces their aspirations — that is up to us.