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That's actually pretty bad. The rest of the world is very willing to spend money on American aerospace products and services. Is it willing to buy gender theor
by inglor_cz 4mo ago
That's actually pretty bad. The rest of the world is very willing to spend money on American aerospace products and services.
Is it willing to buy gender theory from you for similar amounts of money? If not, the production of specialized majors should not be 1:1.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoEven in our "productivity at any cost" society, sometimes people still study things that they find interesting. That's probably a good thing, in the long run.
- inglor_cz 4mo agoScale matters, and there are aftereffects on the society as a whole. Historically, societies which produced a lot of ideologically minded professionals (such as clergy), tended towards implementing that ideology top-down. I am on board with Turchin's theory of elite overproduction here, and gender studies is modern equivalent of catechism. To choose a less ideological example: personally, I love Egyptology, but I would be a strict opponent of producing as many Egyptologists as aerospace engineers. Chances are that the superfluous graduates would push for an Egyptocentric department in every public institution and half of private ones.
- BigTTYGothGF 4mo ago> Chances are that the superfluous graduates would push for an Egyptocentric department in every public institution and half of private ones. Better that than, say, the business school.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoThere are three times as many religion and philosophy majors as ethnic and gender studies majors. If you are worried about ideologically minded professionals, there are bigger fish to fry.
- inglor_cz 4mo agoOh, sure, I would fry them all together.
- user_of_the_wek 4mo agoDo you think its zero sum? We could just put all the gender studies students into engineering and expect them to thrive there?