Your points are very valid. Certainly not everyone should study STEM. And not everyone should learn to code. It depends on your abilities and tastes. But I want to add a few reasons to study STEM (I studied STEM):
1. STEM is a very demanding intellectual pursuit which will test the limits of your intelligence and help you master reason and logic.
2. If you are particularly good at STEM you can capitalize on your abilities to obtain jobs which are highly selective and well paid.
3. If you are weak in other fields, e.g. bad at communication or you hate management or you have little interest in business, a STEM job gives you relatively more independence than the average corporate job while still paying correctly. For example most App developers nowadays are freelancers who work when they want.
4. STEM is the only field where you learn an actual skill (as opposed to just making slides and answering the phone like in Business studies). This skill will always have some value.
5. Even people who understand nothing in STEM and are not interested feel a certain fascination. Consider that even though Albert Einstein was very bad at dealing with people he is widely quoted as an authority on everything just because he was a very good physicist.
1. STEM is a very demanding intellectual pursuit which will test the limits of your intelligence and help you master reason and logic.
2. If you are particularly good at STEM you can capitalize on your abilities to obtain jobs which are highly selective and well paid.
3. If you are weak in other fields, e.g. bad at communication or you hate management or you have little interest in business, a STEM job gives you relatively more independence than the average corporate job while still paying correctly. For example most App developers nowadays are freelancers who work when they want.
4. STEM is the only field where you learn an actual skill (as opposed to just making slides and answering the phone like in Business studies). This skill will always have some value.
5. Even people who understand nothing in STEM and are not interested feel a certain fascination. Consider that even though Albert Einstein was very bad at dealing with people he is widely quoted as an authority on everything just because he was a very good physicist.