Why is it framed that there are too many PhDs, and not that there isn't enough funding for research, art, etc.?https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1346104350993768448 …
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Yea, I hear that. I never went beyond my bachelors for the same reason, but maybe that's just an argument to make better PhDs/schools? Certainly there's important humanities work to be done during a massive cultural / political shift, and little progress is being made.
I think the PhD is an obsolete mechanism. "Important" is doing a lot of work there. Even in STEM where the case is easier to make objectively ("cure cancer! solve climate!") it is dangerous to let self-absorbed people decide what is "important" on the public dime.
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I wonder what would happen if all advanced degrees in STEM were free.
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Probably good things at micro-level so long as the entrance and exit criteria are relatively stringent and time-bound. But possibly bad things macro-level relating to funding. Free advanced-ed = fat state = cronyist corruption/planned economy crap.
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I think 90% of academia in general should be re-amateurized as a side hustle for people who have a living from other sources. I suspect a talented anthropologist would do better work if they could earn a good wage flipping burgers half-time than as full time researcher.
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People don't get the extreme moral hazard of funding for PhDs from basically unaccountable sources captured by cartels of their own advisors. It's a self-perpetuating system of self-congratulatory production.
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Actually I totally agree with this. I think the PhD actually draws a certain form of collaboration or lack thereof that is toxic.
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