25 years old and deep in debt

[DGuller]

Humanities is a necessary part of the coursework, and even the students studying useful things like engineering and math need to take some humanities courses to do stuff like write or talk good.  As a major, though, it should really be reserved mostly for future humanities professors and spoiled rich kids.

[CountDeMoney]

we never urged her to pick a college or a major with an eye on its expected return on investment, as more and more families are doing.

The only tangible and measurable ROIs are for industry-specific certifications from the Institute of Industry-Specific Certifications, Inc.

Everybody else who's not earning the LOL-it's-not-the-actual-minimum-so-there wages in fast food for extra cash in high school gets to die from starvation, and deservedly so.

[Monoriu]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine? 

[Neil]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Because the study of law teaches people to be evil.  Even if a man can somehow manage to retain his goodness after studying law, he will be engaged in a fundamentally parasitic and destructive enterprise.

[Ideologue]

Neil's right, too.

[Caliga]

Cal will never forget the Polish Boy he ate up there.

The trip was worth it just for that.

SAAAAAAAAHSAGES

I just found out the place I got it at, Freddy's Rib House, has closed for good.

[Ed Anger]

You'll find a replacement. Cleveland is full of polish boys.

[Razgovory]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Medicine teaches you to be inhuman.  After you carve up enough cadavers, people stop being human to you anymore.  They're just machines you have license to take apart.

[DontSayBanana]

Medicine teaches you to be inhuman.  After you carve up enough cadavers, people stop being human to you anymore.  They're just machines you have license to take apart.

Anybody with an anatomy textbook and a scalpel can get to that point.  I thought half the point of the classes was to prevent that from happening.

[CountDeMoney]

Medicine teaches you to be inhuman.  After you carve up enough cadavers, people stop being human to you anymore.  They're just machines you have license to take apart.

Anybody with an anatomy textbook and a scalpel can get to that point.  I thought half the point of the classes was to prevent that from happening.

lulz, funny one.

[Jacob]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Because the humanities are the study of the results and processes of human social capacity.

[Ideologue]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Because the humanities are the study of the results and processes of human social capacity.

I don't think that economics is considered a humanity.

[Razgovory]

Medicine teaches you to be inhuman.  After you carve up enough cadavers, people stop being human to you anymore.  They're just machines you have license to take apart.

Anybody with an anatomy textbook and a scalpel can get to that point.  I thought half the point of the classes was to prevent that from happening.

Anyone who is carving up dead people with a scalpel while not currently enrolled in medical school or has been to medical school is probably a monster already.

[Razgovory]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Because the humanities are the study of the results and processes of human social capacity.

I don't think that economics is considered a humanity.

Econometrics?

[Jacob]

Why is there an assumption that the humanities can help develop the social capacity of human beings better than, say, law or medicine?

Because the humanities are the study of the results and processes of human social capacity.

I don't think that economics is considered a humanity.

Economics are a social science.