am not sure if this article and the recent naval tweetstorm are in any way pertinent to stem. i understand the value of phds in romance lit & english & so forth

am not sure if this article and the recent naval tweetstorm are in any way pertinent to stem. i understand the value of phds in romance lit & english & so forth is zero. but in a stem phd, the timelines are 4-5 years, the educational content is substantially rigorous , seriously cannot be acquired by self-study of textbooks or youtube vids, and job prospects outside of academia are 200k+ in the bay area, thanks to the resurgence of computationally hard careers like ml/ds/ai . it is definitely worthwhile to pursue grad school in stem; worst case you can always fall back on react 24 or jquery 48 or whatever shitty version is out 4 years from now.