1/ STEM people like to think impossible student debt burdens are self-inflicted by narcissistic art history types. This is self-serving bs.
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2/ While data do show STEM degrees have better ROI, even doctors, lawyers and engineers can end up in deep shit by making ONE bad decision
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3/ It takes a decade of experimenting and trial-and-error today to find your "product-market-fit" in the economy
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The arguments are related. It's dumb to dictate how best a human can live the most generative life they can.
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Separate topic. If broader society can't see value in (say) oceanographers as easily as musicians, how to validate former?
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the gap is filled by institutions. You may not get why world needs oceanographers, but if you get why world needs ports...
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you can try to find isolated subgraph that doesn't connect to whole society, and is unrelated to market. I'm skeptical.
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"No [hu]man is an island" argument, unsustainability of pure isolationism above say Amish scale etc etc
I think you're restating my "shaving the shadowyak" sub-argument in Dent in the Universe post
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Whether it's time to hit esteem/belonging directly or whether it's premature depends on how much abundance we think we have
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translation from Jung-speak: if esteem/belonging in simpatico subculture is enough, you haven't integrated psyche yet
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