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I don't think you realize how offensive your tone is in these posts. You're dismissing huge swaths of human creative and intellectual activity with sarcastic derision. We get that you're not interested in art history, literature, social sciences, etc. Either figure out a way make that point dispassionately, or find something else to talk about, or you're going to make enemies pretty quickly.

(Also, the humanities and social science majors I know are just as down-to-earth and hard working as the science students. They have tremendous skills, albeit different ones; solving tricky differential equations isn't everything in the world.

The problem is not that these graduates are unskilled, but rather that the whole economy has taken a nosedive, and the kinds of jobs they used to take, which required their intellectual skills, just don't exist in their previous numbers. For example, as described in the article, media and advertising are being crushed.)



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