The global economy has terrible, antisocial priorities as far as humanity goes.
You say that as if humanity is better off having more MBAs and accountants maximizing productivity and economic metasisis, that thing that is ending the temperate, predictable global climate we once enjoyed, and less artists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and teachers, the professions that propagate what makes life worth living at all, learning and experiencing, and passing down those lessons and experiences to others. Without that, we should just go extinct, there’s no point to us without valuing that.
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.
Congratulations.
Meanwhile, nepos of people destroying their own species for private profit can and do get degrees in the humanities you describe, to sit on “charity” boards drawing six figure+ salaries due to their nepo connections and those like you have nothing to say about them getting a degree in culture they care about because their parents cut down a rainforest, strip mined nature, fracked mountains, or murdered customers in a healthcare con.
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.
The global economy has terrible, antisocial priorities as far as humanity goes.
You say that as if humanity is better off having more MBAs and accountants maximizing productivity and economic metasisis, that thing that is ending the temperate, predictable global climate we once enjoyed, and less artists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and teachers, the professions that propagate what makes life worth living at all, learning and experiencing, and passing down those lessons and experiences to others. Without that, we should just go extinct, there’s no point to us without valuing that.
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.
Congratulations.
Meanwhile, nepos of people destroying their own species for private profit can and do get degrees in the humanities you describe, to sit on “charity” boards drawing six figure+ salaries due to their nepo connections and those like you have nothing to say about them getting a degree in culture they care about because their parents cut down a rainforest, strip mined nature, fracked mountains, or murdered customers in a healthcare con.
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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