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I doubt very much that there’s causation between senior citizens getting degrees and a lack of specialized professionals. Things rarely work that way. I’d be gl

I doubt very much that there’s causation between senior citizens getting degrees and a lack of specialized professionals. Things rarely work that way. I’d be glad to pay for unemployed historians and social scientists, they enrich our intelectual culture and help shape my country. I’d be even happier if they got jobs of course.

Rochus 6y ago
Go up to the comment of gbronner to which I responded. If people are bothered by the fact that retirees study and do their doctorates, they should ask themselves the questions I have asked. I think it's good if pensioners keep themselves busy in a meaningful way, as long as it doesn't put an additional burden on society. Imagine how much society benefits when pensioners use their time to study cell metabolism and use the vast amount of data available to discover connections and mechanisms that lead to new antibiotics or other useful drugs instead of being bored and spending the rest of their lives in front of the television. And unlike you, I don't think it makes any sense at all to let people study stuff that primarily costs society, both for the study and for the subsequent maintenance of these people. Enrichting the intelectual culture is good, but for this we do not need the legions of historians, publicists, media scientists or philosophers, or other fields of study whose sole purpose seems to be to create offspring of their own kind.
- bananamerica 6y ago
  > whose sole purpose seems to be to create offspring of their own kind That’s absolutely not their sole purpose.
  - Rochus 6y ago
    The graduates of the above mentioned studies I know of work at the academy of their field, or in the administration and help expand the state administration and bureaucracy.
    - bananamerica 6y ago
      It seems to me that what you learned about these graduates says a lot about these graduates. And someone must take care of state bureaucracy anyway.
    - jimbokun 6y ago
      That sounds like a very small and likely very biased sample of people from those fields.

Rochus 6y ago

Go up to the comment of gbronner to which I responded. If people are bothered by the fact that retirees study and do their doctorates, they should ask themselves the questions I have asked. I think it's good if pensioners keep themselves busy in a meaningful way, as long as it doesn't put an additional burden on society. Imagine how much society benefits when pensioners use their time to study cell metabolism and use the vast amount of data available to discover connections and mechanisms that lead to new antibiotics or other useful drugs instead of being bored and spending the rest of their lives in front of the television. And unlike you, I don't think it makes any sense at all to let people study stuff that primarily costs society, both for the study and for the subsequent maintenance of these people. Enrichting the intelectual culture is good, but for this we do not need the legions of historians, publicists, media scientists or philosophers, or other fields of study whose sole purpose seems to be to create offspring of their own kind.

bananamerica 6y ago
> whose sole purpose seems to be to create offspring of their own kind That’s absolutely not their sole purpose.
- Rochus 6y ago
  The graduates of the above mentioned studies I know of work at the academy of their field, or in the administration and help expand the state administration and bureaucracy.
  - bananamerica 6y ago
    It seems to me that what you learned about these graduates says a lot about these graduates. And someone must take care of state bureaucracy anyway.
  - jimbokun 6y ago
    That sounds like a very small and likely very biased sample of people from those fields.