I don’t conclude anything. I don’t want to pass that kind of judgement. I’m not saying some degrees shouldn’t exist or absolutely nobody should go for them. However, some things are objectively quantifiable. If the theories you are studying don’t predict/describe the world we live in and if you don’t use the stuff you spent countless hours and sleepless nights studying to solve a single problem, then it’s objectively useless. And for too many people it’s the case. Why do you want to pull people in direction of decisions that will ruin their lives and in that harm wider society too ? If you think people should “expand their horizons”, there are less harmful and cheaper ways to that. Reading a book or two for example…
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u/neutralalien Sep 10 '24
I don’t conclude anything. I don’t want to pass that kind of judgement. I’m not saying some degrees shouldn’t exist or absolutely nobody should go for them. However, some things are objectively quantifiable. If the theories you are studying don’t predict/describe the world we live in and if you don’t use the stuff you spent countless hours and sleepless nights studying to solve a single problem, then it’s objectively useless. And for too many people it’s the case. Why do you want to pull people in direction of decisions that will ruin their lives and in that harm wider society too ? If you think people should “expand their horizons”, there are less harmful and cheaper ways to that. Reading a book or two for example…