/lit/ - Literature

>>15112485
Maybe in other countries it’s better, but in the US it’s a tragic racket. There’s almost no DIRECTLY transferable skills from getting an English, history, philosophy, etc. degree besides the possibility to pursue more schooling so that you can yourself now teach these subjects (and the situation for some grad students and PhDs looking for jobs is so fucked up that this discourages enough people from spending at least a decade of their life straddling poverty to look for a job which possibly doesn’t even exist). So, sadly enough, it functions like a racket. This is the fucking literature board, by the way, so even when people wave their dick about how they got a more useful degree than a humanities degree, they’re still clearly interested in the humanities. The sad thing about the academic study of the humanities in the US today is you can’t live with it and you can’t live without it. If we just excised them (which we are, in a sense, already doing by making it so unprofitable and non-prestigious) then the US would become even more of a barbaric, soulless, technocratic nation of corporate-cock-sucking slaves than it already is. However, as these programs are run today, they’re also not the most inspiring things in the world. It’s easy to call people greedy when you yourself are comfy in whatever position you have, but

>why should I accrue debt and probably use my own parents’ money for a 4-year degree that will not itself help me find a job beyond maybe being a high-school teacher of students who don’t even want to be there?

is a valid question to ask.

>>11059964

>jacobite