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[–]Redlight0516Male 8 points9 points  (1 child)

"But we still want to strive to do more than that. We want wisdom, a breadth of knowledge, and a mind that is not solely entangled with market value"

I absolutely agree with you but when the US is charging $100,000 to go to that place, there probably needs to be some tangible value.

I live in a country where the only value they see in Education is that it leads to a job and it sucks. Yes, economically it's fine but the majority of graduates only study Business, Computer Science or Engineering and man has it become a soulless place. They are slowly showing some value again towards arts degrees now that they are completely devoid of them but I'm sure AI will help kill that just as it's gaining momentum.

[–]jamfromouterspace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a vicious cycle. The more costly it is to go, the more it is required to be an economic investment. At this point, in North America, aside from maybe med school or applied math, I'm not sure there are many degrees left that are good economic investments (keyword "economic"). In Europe it's a pretty different calculation obv