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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone is motivated by money and greed.

This is a really bizarre question to me. A lot of people just want to enjoy their day-to-day life rather than build up a Scrooge McDuck pile of coins to swim in?[/quote]

Haha, yeah I grew up not worried about money and followed a career I was passionate about. Huge regrets because in this day and age, a modest income consigns you to long commutes, substandard housing, and crummy schools. It’s great if you never plan to marry and have kids; maybe even okay if you marry someone with similar values, but find a DW who is content to live a simple life and doesn’t want kids, that’s a pretty narrow field. And I wanted kids, I just had no idea how expensive they were and neighborhoods with good schools are.

And you can say “move to X” where X is some random place not in a major city, well a) my passion career has no jobs there, I guess I could become a teacher eventually but likely will still be poor there 2) most cheap places, if you want good schools, housing has still gotten really really expensive over the last 10 years, even more so COVID era [/quote]

OP here. THIS is what we’re worried about. Income inequality is rapidly rising, and we increasingly have no safety net. A philosophy degree is a one-way ticket to downward mobility. I don’t want my kid’s standard of living to decline, so I’m trying (trying being the operative word here) to help him realize that he’s squandering his future. If we lived in, say, Sweden or any place with more social security, I’d be okay with having my kid major in the humanities. But we do not, and I have to help my kid realize that life after graduation won’t be a bed of roses. [/quote]

You have to leave philosophy majors out of this. They make more than many stem and business-type majors do. [/quote]

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