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I wish more conversations around student loan debt discussed the outcome difference by major. The income gulf between an engineer and a lit major is massive. Th
by weberc2 8y ago
I wish more conversations around student loan debt discussed the outcome difference by major. The income gulf between an engineer and a lit major is massive. The conversation focuses on how bad the economy was when we graduated, but I suspect outcomes would be wildly different if people majored in STEM or business and instead minored in feminist dance theory or French poetry or whatever their passion may have been.
- piva00 8y agoAnd here is the catch, some of these low-paying studies are also important for society. Culture has a place and a PhD in Contemporary Classical music has its worth in society. Education is one of the best returns of investment of taxes a society can make to itself, I don't understand how people want to make this into a free market, it doesn't seem to work.