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College is not necessarily a vocational school -- many people with "useless" degrees go on to become knowledge workers... using the skills that they learned and
by greglindahl 9y ago
College is not necessarily a vocational school -- many people with "useless" degrees go on to become knowledge workers... using the skills that they learned and applied in their "useless" degree. That's an economic benefit from the "useless" degree.
One example of this is all the physicists working as programmers. There are also a ton of examples of humanities students becoming lawyers, or product managers, or school teachers, or ...
- Banthum 9y agoOf course, some degrees are direct training, and some are more generally useful. But there's a spectrum. E.g. philosophy and "gender studies" are both considered generally useless. But I'd say that philosophy at least can be applied to various types of work, and the course doesn't make a student less useful as a productive human. With "gender studies" the student is actually becoming more useless by having his head filled with a bunch of moralisms, victimhood ideologies, and objectively false lies about the world. A naive highschooler is more useful in any workplace than a "gender studies" graduate. It's more useful to know nothing than to know things that aren't true, or be full of propagandized anger at various identity groups.
- greglindahl 9y agoWow, you're really doubling down on making stuff up and then being critical of it. My sister is an example of someone who studied gender studies as an undergraduate, and she's currently a quite successful high school English teacher.