Of 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 consider

Of 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.