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It's just shorthand for something like "what people (show they) want". In the past, college-degree holders were scarce, so a history degree had "economic" valu
by adamisom 3y ago
It's just shorthand for something like "what people (show they) want".
In the past, college-degree holders were scarce, so a history degree had "economic" value.
It's not that the past valued the humanities more. It's just that good jobs were a thinner slice of society and tended to be filled by the also-thin ranks of degree holders.
- ghaff 3y agoOf course, plenty of people who get history majors do perfectly well professionally. Many of us have mostly worked in things only tangentially related to our undergraduate major.