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Not everyone has the desire or ability to do STEM. I'm not sure why you'd not encourage them. You do appreciate having someone cook your food and create the art

• lovich 9y ago
  I agree with you that not everyone has the desire or ability to do stem, but the poster you are responding to accounted for that. We have to catch them when they fall if the open market does not value those people, but we as a society do value them. We shouldn't continue on our current path of telling people to follow their dreams or that all careers have some value and then throw them to the wolves when it comes to paying to live in our society. This applies mostly to the US
• WalterSear 9y ago
  The best part is paying minimum wage for it, because there are so many of them. :) Except not. These aren't people going on to be visual artists. These are people frittering away their college opportunity, and then going on to careers were the degree doesn't help. >"There is nothing wrong with the arts, psychology, and journalism, but graduates in these fields have lower wages and are less likely to find work in their fields than graduates in science and math. Moreover, more than half of all humanities graduates end up in jobs that don't require college degrees, and those graduates don't get a big income boost from having gone to college." These aren't people successfully chasing their dreams - these are people avoiding adulting for four more years. It's not appropriate to encourage kids to go to college "for the love of something," unless they already have the means, or at least a plan, to pay for the rest of their life.