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I wonder if humanities knowledge will become a status symbol, as being in great shape has become
by bigred100 7y ago
I wonder if humanities knowledge will become a status symbol, as being in great shape has become
- luckylion 7y agoHasn't it already? It certainly is in Western Europe, a way to distinguish yourself from the filthy masses that need to do physical labor and the slightly smarter but soulless engineers and lawyers and what have you.
- bigred100 7y agoIn USA (among the social group I grew up around), it seems like it’s mocked unless you’re also wealthy, in my opinion (eg the Starbucks barista who knows Latin). Even with eg Zuckerberg I think it’s mostly unknown that he has some knowledge of these things, or among many considered an eccentricity. Among very high level societal elites or extremely educated people perhaps it’s viewed differently (I would know nothing about this)
- luckylion 7y agoYeah, I've seen part of that on the web, but I never know how much of it is ironic. It's very different in Europe, there may be some mocking, and we also don't create unlimited jobs for every graduate, but they'll most likely not end up doing minimum wage jobs, and most of them easily transition into working in the media, for the government, large corporations or foundations.
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- Fomite 7y agoThis. There's more than one country where a degree in Classics, for example, is code for "Future Banker".
- bigred100 7y agoMy not exceptionally informed impression as a non elite US UMC tech guy: in the very high levels of society and at top US universities, that would be very normal interpretation. Among “normal” people you’d probably be viewed as kind of nerdy and easily excitable, head a bit in the clouds