Good-looking young guy. Son of immigrants. Such a hard worker. Gets himself into Stanford to study philosophy? Immerses himself in fraternity life? Pointlessness ensues. Gee, who could have seen that coming? This whole boring, useless story means nothing to those of us who chose not to give our money to "elite" universities filled with irrational leftists.
Good-looking young guy. Son of immigrants. Such a hard worker. Gets himself into Stanford to study philosophy? Immerses himself in fraternity life? Pointlessness ensues. Gee, who could have seen that coming?
This whole boring, useless story means nothing to those of us who chose not to give our money to "elite" universities filled with irrational leftists.
A Philosophy major offers the highest income prospects among all "humanities" degrees and, particularly above the median, surpasses many science/engineering majors—which isn't surprising to me, since philosophy is the bedrock of all intellectual inquiry, science included.
There are lots of potential sources on this, but this one has a handy chart:
Not all philosophies are created equal. Some people who called themselves “lovers of wisdom” gained prominence for appealingly deranged misuse of brain cells, people who were nothing but despicable scumbags whose sick thoughts created havoc in our world to this day.
Philosophy from a good school can be extremely useful training for how to think analytically - if you’re thinking of law or business management, lobbying and policy making, consulting, or a variety of careers that require big picture thinking. You do need to round out the major courses with courses from your area of interest and have a plan post grad plan, network and take good internships, but I’ve known many highly successful philosophy majors (from good schools).
Good-looking young guy. Son of immigrants. Such a hard worker. Gets himself into Stanford to study philosophy? Immerses himself in fraternity life? Pointlessness ensues. Gee, who could have seen that coming?
This whole boring, useless story means nothing to those of us who chose not to give our money to "elite" universities filled with irrational leftists.
A Philosophy major offers the highest income prospects among all "humanities" degrees and, particularly above the median, surpasses many science/engineering majors—which isn't surprising to me, since philosophy is the bedrock of all intellectual inquiry, science included.
There are lots of potential sources on this, but this one has a handy chart:
https://dailynous.com/2019/01/03/philosophy-majors-make-money-majors-humanities-field/
Not all philosophies are created equal. Some people who called themselves “lovers of wisdom” gained prominence for appealingly deranged misuse of brain cells, people who were nothing but despicable scumbags whose sick thoughts created havoc in our world to this day.
I’m not talking about “philosophies.” I’m talking about philosophy—the rigorous study and application of logical reasoning.
The foundational failure of our incredibly screwed-up educational system is the failure to teach philosophy.
…but he’s not the “son of immigrants.” He’s the grandson of immigrants, semi at that. There was no point in even bringing that quality up.
Philosophy from a good school can be extremely useful training for how to think analytically - if you’re thinking of law or business management, lobbying and policy making, consulting, or a variety of careers that require big picture thinking. You do need to round out the major courses with courses from your area of interest and have a plan post grad plan, network and take good internships, but I’ve known many highly successful philosophy majors (from good schools).
The DIEvy League is fully demoralized: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-part-3
Yeh, his choice of majoring in philosophy struck me as a worthless endeavor.
Don’t a lot of philosophy and history majors go to law school?
Some to law school, yes. Philosophy helps them learn how to think.
Some go onto worthless social science endeavors too.
But if you go to a school with a worthless or evil philosophy, your philosophy degree is going to be worthless or evil.
Not all philosophies are created equal.