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    1. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jan 4
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      Nick Pinkston  🌐 Retweeted Bloomberg Opinion

      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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      Jobless Ph.D.'s are creating a class of elite discontents, says @noahpinion. And that's not good for society https://trib.al/2HkIDTj 
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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      Because most PhDs are crap and would do nothing worthwhile even if funded to unlimited levels. There is no need to flatter the conceits of this crowd. 90% of them have far too high an opinion of themselves. I say this as one of the median ones from a “top” school.

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    3. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jan 4
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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.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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      Replying to @NickPinkston

      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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    5. John Robb‏Verified account @johnrobb Jan 4
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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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