Useless Degrees, An Analysis

For a long time now, the debate has raged as to whether it’s worth going to college anymore. The libertarian view on this question has typically been along the lines of… if people are foolish enough to waste money on worthless degrees, the world will soon enough teach them another lesson. While valid, that view ran aground on the Democrat vote-buying scheme to insulate those with useless degrees from the consequences of their poor choices and indebtedness, with our tax money.

The cynical motives behind this ploy aside, I very much doubt many students enroll in college with the intention of eventually being bailed out by their fellow citizens. These bright, young minds have simply bought into the hype that a college degree, any degree, is the ticket to prosperity. That might have been mostly true, back in the day when the people who ran higher education actually focused on educating. In the past, a degree could give someone who was willing to work hard a leg up on the competition. Somewhere along the road, we lost sight of the fact that hard work was the not-so-secret essential ingredient, not that scrap of paper with the fancy calligraphy on it. Through greed and cowardly moral blindness, the grifters who run our colleges have transformed these venerable institutions into the educational equivalent of shady time-shares.

Although the rot is extensive and accelerating, there are still college degrees which might be worth the time and money thrown at them—medicine, science, engineering, and a few others. Better learn fast though. These disciplines remain only relatively uncorrupted because they’re harder to infiltrate. In the spirit of the hard sciences, it’s informative to analyze which college degrees are the more useless, and why. Rational analysis, scorned as patriarchal, racist, and colonialist, comes in handy when exposing scams.

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