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Originally Posted by Table 5
It's funny, people always discount arts degrees, but some of the most successful people I know have them. Photographers, Interior Designers, Architects, Graphic Designers...you can make a healthy living in these fields if you're good at what you do. Fine Arts or something like a Philosophy degree? Sure, good luck with that. But if you get a degree that can be applied to business, there is legitimate opportunity out there.
And when the robots come for all our jerbs, they are some of the tougher ones to automate.
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Sorry, I should clarify. I was referring to "Liberal Arts" programs in universities, which includes: humanities, social sciences, history, philosophy, non-applied sciences, etc...
At most universities, most undergrads (exceptions like Engineering) are either Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts programs. When we refer to the "arts" degrees, we are referring to Bachelor of Arts degrees. You're talking more about applied arts or fine arts. Most of the careers you're referring to would require education in technical schools, which would have more in common with a trade than a Bachelor of Arts program at a University.
Even then, I don't think liberal arts programs are useless, we just have way too many students enrolled in them and the standards for passing them are way too low. The government needs to step in and say, we only need X amount of people with a sociology degree, so only X amounts of spots will be available. Instead, they allow unlimited amounts of students, it becomes like a 2nd highschool. The students leave totally unsatisfied with their job prospects, and our economy has to import labour with actual skills.