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These analogies don't make sense. Scientific research and exploratory work have insane ROI, just look at DARPA. I can not say the same for a humanities degree.
by carom 4y ago
These analogies don't make sense. Scientific research and exploratory work have insane ROI, just look at DARPA. I can not say the same for a humanities degree.
Going into debt for a humanities degree is akin to consumer credit. The individual is free to take on that debt, but it is by no means an investment.
I do not think people should weight the intangible value of the degree that they are going 50k in debt for. Doing so will lead to the current student debt crisis.
- paganel 4y ago> These analogies don't make sense. Scientific research and exploratory work have insane ROI, Humanities teach you that life isn't a ROI thing.
- carom 4y agoThen there is no student debt crisis. Good work on solving that one. We can continue paying schools with non forgivable loans and empowering them to charge a flat tuition no matter what the expected earnings of a degree are. The world is perfect. Those students and society are getting their monies worth in intangible benefits.
- _dain_ 4y agofunny how I managed to learn that without a humanities degree
- inglor_cz 4y ago"Humanities teach you that life isn't a ROI thing." One could possibly acquire that particular knowledge for free. Also, life may not be a ROI thing, but being heavily indebted is still misery. Do the teachers whose salaries depend on their students being heavily indebted teach that, or do they prefer not to talk about this issue? Or the administrators? I would call it a material (and painful) lesson on conflicts of interest.
- imtringued 4y agoOk, now introduce negative interest rates on cash to allow that to happen.