Those with your mindset of, “well, are they dedicating their life to increasinging GDP?” are winning to be sure, and it’s making a terrible, desperate, disaffected world few want to bring children into because they know how horrible it is, cold and greed worshipping, a hell of Neverending competition.
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m not arguing that the world is better off if people avoid the social sciences… actually, I think if we as a society prioritized that more, we’d be better off overall. I’m just saying purely from the standpoint of if one looks at college as an investment in one’s own career/employ-ability then you are better off in a more rigorous and conventional field.
Discouraging or hindsighting people either before or after college for choosing a prosocial degree is contributing to shifting the culture against the humanities.
We should actively discourage people from getting degrees on the basis of “well how much will I get paid?” Look at the world, people who choose that path almost always become the worst people society has to offer, selfish, individualistic opportunists. College should be a last gasp attempt to dissuade as many as possible from seeking capital as it’s own end and not social contribution in an area of passion. Every MBA and modern “start from unregulated capitalism is perfect and defend from there” economist is a defeat for humanity. Those that make a vocation out of trying to quantify and extract maximum value from other people as the entire point. It’s perverse they are the most rewarded in society by education. And it largely isn’t pushed for their individual interests, but for expectations of economic growth, something we have to abandon fucking decades ago if we want a future for our species at all.
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m not arguing that the world is better off if people avoid the social sciences… actually, I think if we as a society prioritized that more, we’d be better off overall. I’m just saying purely from the standpoint of if one looks at college as an investment in one’s own career/employ-ability then you are better off in a more rigorous and conventional field.
I am not saying the humanities has no value.
Discouraging or hindsighting people either before or after college for choosing a prosocial degree is contributing to shifting the culture against the humanities.
We should actively discourage people from getting degrees on the basis of “well how much will I get paid?” Look at the world, people who choose that path almost always become the worst people society has to offer, selfish, individualistic opportunists. College should be a last gasp attempt to dissuade as many as possible from seeking capital as it’s own end and not social contribution in an area of passion. Every MBA and modern “start from unregulated capitalism is perfect and defend from there” economist is a defeat for humanity. Those that make a vocation out of trying to quantify and extract maximum value from other people as the entire point. It’s perverse they are the most rewarded in society by education. And it largely isn’t pushed for their individual interests, but for expectations of economic growth, something we have to abandon fucking decades ago if we want a future for our species at all.
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