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It's a tough one. The problem we haven't solved as a society is what do we do with all these smart people? They need money so they go get a high paying job in f
by raziel2701 6y ago
It's a tough one. The problem we haven't solved as a society is what do we do with all these smart people? They need money so they go get a high paying job in finance or tech or consulting and then all that scientific training was kind of left aside right? So what was the point of the PhD?
A job with meaning is hard to find, maybe we should encourage and support all these smart people to start a business/research venture? Because it feels wasteful to generate so many PhDs and nothing comes out of it.
- spaced-out 6y agoThis is a fundamental issue with how our society allocates resources. Companies like Google or Morgan Stanley can hire those people and use those skills to generate something like 1 million dollars per year (look at how much money per employee those companies generate). We don't value academic work anywhere near that much.
- ghaff 6y ago>Because it feels wasteful to generate so many PhDs and nothing comes out of it. Well, some research presumably came out of it and the experience of planning and executing that research is presumably at least somewhat transferable to a lot of others tasks. The reality is that a lot of people don't directly use a significant portion of what they learn in school. Even if they got a CS degree and become a developer, there's probably a lot of theoretical CS most won't use outside of interview questions. And many of us have shifted our careers multiple times even if we've stayed loosely adjacent to prior roles.