Me: “I think it will be good that colleges will publish the outcomes and debt loads of various majors so people know what they’re getting into” Twitter mob: “You are evil and hate the liberal arts!”
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Welp.
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I *think* I see the disconnect here if I may: Austen’s saying some degrees aren’t worth pursuing (because of debt load vs expected income), whereas people are extrapolating that to be a comment on whether the job/field/etc itself is worth pursuing.
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You’re probably right! But like, I don’t think an English degree is a bad investment just because it costs X and takes longer to pay off. These aren’t mutually exclusive things!
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Sure, I think that’s a trade off everyone has to make (and will be better able to do so with the data!) People with non-technical degrees face a LOT of attacks & uphill battles from all sides, so I can empathize w/how they might misinterpret Austen’s original intent
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Case in point: me.
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This is a weak argument. Extrapolating from your own data point of 1 isn't representative.
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I don’t understand. (None of the three of us extrapolated from personal data points of 1)
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That wasn’t an argument. It was me stating agreement with Jonathan’s observation.
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