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I agree. And the market is telling us that more jobs in these fields are not needed, while STEM has endless technological problems to address and high salaries

• JamisonM 6y ago
  The solid ROI on arts degrees is the market saying that they are needed, no?
  • beaner 6y ago
    I think it's a tricky question, because the provided link seems to distinguish liberal arts schools from other non-technology, non-business schools, and I don't know how that distinction is being made. It could be that their subjects are largely similar, but the schools being explicitly marked as "liberal arts" schools are of an elitist class separated by grades and/or family privilege. And that these aspects of the student rather than the content of the degree are what account for the return. Certainly some liberal arts degrees are warranted by the market, but if what's happening is that all the ones from a second rank of colleges are simply not being considered as liberal arts, then that kind of misrepresents what's going on.
    • JamisonM 6y ago
      There's a lot more evidence than that out there anyway. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-stem-salaries.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-ste... There isn't a crisis of unemployed liberal arts majors in America or the world, there is a reason for that. Of course there are a lot of people that have convinced themselves that there is such a crisis!