<p>Our society is one of innovation and the technology that we surround ourselves with is enough to inspire anyone to take part in it. Engineering is for sure one of the top 5 majors valuable to society. Medicine and Physics would be up there as well. Liberal arts, psychology, communications, are over saturated and chances are you will be employed in a entry level job unless you choose a major that is marketable and valuable to society. $ is a great motivator as we live in capitalist society so shame on you for stigmatizing it. Anyone who is in it for the money will be a lousy engineer. It takes a passion for the subject to truly succeed. From my experience, those who are trying to pursue only money are generally business majors and I laugh as they believe their degree is a ticket to a 6 figure salary after graduation.</p>