I didn't know this! I was under the impression that philosophy students use it in addition to another career and mostly make money off the other career, right?
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Is philosophy actually good? I always thought I wanted to do it but after meeting people who majored in philosophy I realized most of them were really bad at thinking, and whatever philosophy was teaching wasn't how to think. I'm assuming your experience was better?
My experience was good. But it's a big umbrella, and the most vocal/public aren't always representative.
I wouldn't study philosophy (or any subject) because I thought it would make me a better thinker in some general sense. I think you study it because you're interested in the material.
There's not a very high correlation between the good parts of philosophy and getting the degree.
Mostly to BA, you just have to read texts and regurgitate/rehearse arguments in them. And then you write something that responds, but your response doesn't have to be good.
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There are bad engineers with engineering degrees, bad businesspeople with business degrees, and bad thinkers with philosophy degrees. Not sure there is use universalizing from the bad iterations.
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Philosophy is good and can give you lots of tools for critical thinking, but it’s not a silver bullet. Lots of other factors can push you in the other direction, where you use the reasoning skills and knowledge you gain in order to reinforce your bad thinking.
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But have you met a major that uniformly produces people who are 'good' at thinking?