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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That the Ph.D. market is a pyramid scheme is a well-known fact. A single Biology professor may have 20 Bio Ph.D.'s working for him at any point in time, because he needs the man hours for labor. The number of those graduating with Ph.D.s vastly over shadows the number of Ph.D.-level job openings.

At least in the natural sciences and engineering, students can go into industry still. In the humanities and social sciences, there's no industry beyond consulting + colleges are cutting Ph.D.-required positions.

Why do you think there are so many HR diversity administrators parasitizing industries? The humanities and social science majors cannot get any other job and swarm into the diversity/equity/inclusion rhetoric, getting jobs based on nepotism and personal connections. The same is true for college administrators.

The reality is far too many people are getting worthless degrees, whether at the undergraduate, masters or doctorate level, and the federal government is blindly handing out student loans to them. Or more accurately, so many people are getting worthless degrees [i]because[/i] the federal government is blindly handing out student loans.

The federal government should only back loans for degrees that are societally needed and employable - engineering, nursing, K-12 teaching, medicine, pharmacy, law, business, natural sciences, etc.

Leave the liberal arts to those who have the liberty to pursue education without financial backing and benefit. [/quote]
Our world is particularly chaotic these days because this generation have expectations that are completely misaligned with reality. The reality is we are a capitalist country and this will not change anytime soon. The expectation is whatever strange feel-good non-confrontational filth that comes out from media companies these past 3 decades.
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Hollywood is swarming with nepotistic fail-sons and fail-daughters whose greatest challenge in life has been convincing their parents to attend film school over a fully paid-for law/medical school. As a result, they make the same 3 movies about "follow your dreams", "follow your passions", and some 45-year old bloke with a wife and kids who didn't follow his dreams/passions and therefore hates his life and wonders "where did it all go wrong". Or pathetically reminisces about "the best years of his life" back in college. Remember kids, life is terrible after college so make sure to shell out for the college experience!

Also too many law and medical procedurals about superstar attorneys/doctors "making a difference" leading every Harry and Sally to major in humanities/social science for law school or biology for medical school. They of course cannot get in and end up with the most worthless and unemployable bachelors degrees possible. Or worse for law, they get into a low-ranked law school and drown further in debt with an unemployable law degree. Instead they could have done something more achievable like accounting and nursing that is always in demand and easily pays 6-figures after gaining experience.

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