> Getting a degree in the humanities is only advantageous if you have a reasonable expectation that you'll never have to know a specific trade but will simply

> Getting a degree in the humanities is only advantageous if you have a reasonable expectation that you'll never have to know a specific trade but will simply be in the management. Is there data showing that humanities degree-holders have lower career earnings (controlling for other factors, of course)? IIRC, engineers start faster, but generally hit a ceiling (on income and age) while humanities degree holders keep going. Humanities deals with much more difficult and realistic problems than STEM - the problems that cannot be quantified and have no easy answers, which includes most of what we experience in reality and are the real challenges in life and in business. Algorithms are great, but most of life cannot be addressed that way. And to say only the 'ruling class' are worthy of learning such things is, I think, the true elitism. Also, life is much more than career. We have to be family members, spouses, citizens, community members, individuals, etc. etc. STEM doesn't help much with those things. The problems of Facebook aren't interface and back end, but what to write. The current problems of society (and Facebook) are not technical - we have wave after wave of technical innovation and look where we are - but political and social. We haven't come close to solving them all, but we've come a long way in the last few hundred years, and I hope we do more for the next generation than give them more algorithms.