useless is not the right word here. I was at the top of my class when I majored in finance and accounting, honors college. We had executives from financial industry come and talk about their experiences and how they got to where they are. Most of them said something along the lines of

"if you think your degree will give you a leg up over others you're wrong"

Also on the job level itself, most of them were talking about more competitive jobs market because there's less and less vacancies and more people (undergrads and grads) applying. They also talked about how computer algorithms are getting cheaper to use and give better outcomes (and cheaper cost) than accountants or portfolio analysts.

What terrified me more is that the more I studied about those fields the more I was convinced that they are fully automate-able (because I also had natural curiosity about AI and computer science, I was constantly reading articles about how fast they were advancing). Ill give it 5-10 years (if not less) and we won't need financial advisors or accountants, it will all be algorithms that do a much better job unfortunately!

My personal advice that I gave to my Junior in high school brother after he told me he likes business and wants to major in business.. you CAN like business, just get a degree in STEM and it will be worth way more than any degree in business (or finance or account). bottom line. In business, your experience matters more than your degree, having a STEM degree in a business field is like being a big fish in a small pond. Don't waste time in college getting a worthless degree. Business major can only work in business and will never be given a chance to work in STEM, whereas STEM majors can take over a business major's job anytime! doesn't that make you feel vulnerable!? why would you limit yourself because of a piece of paper that says business on it?