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If you are not super rich most likely you are paying a tiny fraction towards the higher education of someone else's child. Plus if you have kids you benefit fro
by orbifold 8y ago
If you are not super rich most likely you are paying a tiny fraction towards the higher education of someone else's child. Plus if you have kids you benefit from the same system. I actually know several people with useless degrees that now have well paid jobs here in Germany, one studied Ancient Greek and Latin and is now at Germanies federal reserve the other studied art history and is now a SAP consultant. Those degrees are also much cheaper than training everyone in STEM fields.
- hayd 8y agoMath is pretty cheap too.
- orbifold 8y agoGood luck training more than 2% of your population in math without significantly degrading the difficulty, I studied math and probably half of the people dropped out after the first semester.
- geff82 8y agoYou, my fellow German (Frankfurter? I know too many people at the federal reserve...), are making the same mistake as most: beancounting and measuring everything in money. Degrees in Ancient Greek and Latin mean that besides being rich in money, society is also rich in culture. We might need more STEM probably, but we would miss the people knowledgeable in cultural things a lot.