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When I meet someone with two PhDs in Europe I started to evaluate if they're contributing massive brain-blasts to civilization or if they just wanted to delay t
by bdg 3y ago
When I meet someone with two PhDs in Europe I started to evaluate if they're contributing massive brain-blasts to civilization or if they just wanted to delay the next chapter of adulthood and use free education as a camouflage.
- numbers_guy 3y agoA Ph.d is mostly cheap labour for the relevant research institution. I wouldn't count that as a cost to society unless the work done is not useful, in which case it is not the Ph.d graduate but the research institution that funded the project that is to blame. Get a Ph.d position is quite competitive and the ones which are less "useful" from an immediate economic perspective are paid much worse.
- consilient 3y agoPhDs are apprentices doing skilled labor, not students in the usual sense. An unfunded PhD offer, even in the US, is a polite rejection.