The liberal arts

[mongers]

Ide, just emigrate, there may even be a land of thin chicks out there, somewhere ? 

[Eddie Teach]

You mean like Ethiopia and Somalia?

[Ed Anger]

I think Canada requires 250k in assets to emigrate there. A bitchin' DVD collection won't qualify.

[HVC]

No, my interest rates are not 3.4%.

My mortgage rate is 3.25%. 

That's an excellent rate!

2.99 here. Then again there's only a small portion left over so that's probably how i got max discretion.

[DGuller]

I proposed something similar earlier: remove all government financial aid and loans and loan guarantees for majors that are not immediately marketable.  Let rich kids take humanities.

Liberal arts is a spice of life, but you can't feed yourself just with spices.

[11B4V]

I proposed something similar earlier: remove all government financial aid and loans and loan guarantees for majors that are not immediately marketable.  Let rich kids take humanities.

Liberal arts is a spice of life, but you can't feed yourself just with spices.

Then why would you get a degree in it?

[DGuller]

And perhaps those folks with "useless" humanities degrees might have the critical thinking skills to enable them to be great tradesmen as opposed to good tradesmen.

Yes, because getting a humanities degree without job prospects really shows how critical your thinking skills are.

[Razgovory]

I'm not entirely sure what a liberal arts degree even entails.  I know what a medieval liberal education was like.  There were seven subjects.  Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, geometry, logic, astrology, and music.  Music was actually more mathematics, I think it involved ratios and fractions.

[Razgovory]

I proposed something similar earlier: remove all government financial aid and loans and loan guarantees for majors that are not immediately marketable.  Let rich kids take humanities.

Liberal arts is a spice of life, but you can't feed yourself just with spices.

Then why would you get a degree in it?

Simply having a degree is helpful in the job market.  My dad is a programmer, but got a degree in Psychology which he credits with helping him get a better position.  Not because of knowledge of psychology, but simply because having a piece of paper that says you went to college gives you a leg up.

[DGuller]

Spending some tax money on the liberal arts up to and including HS level seems to me to make sense. Beyond that not so much. How to put this... people who study liberal arts at university are not very bright and what they produce is pretty crappy.

I wouldn't put it like that, but I'm glad someone else did.  . I'm not sure where the notion that liberal arts gives you critical thinking skills is coming from anyway.  In my college experience, liberal arts students were very uncritical liberal drones.

[11B4V]

I proposed something similar earlier: remove all government financial aid and loans and loan guarantees for majors that are not immediately marketable.  Let rich kids take humanities.

Liberal arts is a spice of life, but you can't feed yourself just with spices.

Then why would you get a degree in it?

Simply having a degree is helpful in the job market. 

Yes, I know that. Why a humanities degree though?

[Phillip V]

Simply having a degree is helpful in the job market.  My dad is a programmer, but got a degree in Psychology which he credits with helping him get a better position.  Not because of knowledge of psychology, but simply because having a piece of paper that says you went to college gives you a leg up.

Those were the good ole days.

[Razgovory]

I proposed something similar earlier: remove all government financial aid and loans and loan guarantees for majors that are not immediately marketable.  Let rich kids take humanities.

Liberal arts is a spice of life, but you can't feed yourself just with spices.

Then why would you get a degree in it?

Simply having a degree is helpful in the job market. 

Yes, I know that. Why a humanities degree though?

Maybe cause it's easy?   I don't know.

[DGuller]

How much is $200 a month in your earliest earning years going to be worth if invested and compounded over your career?

Who the fuck invests $200/month of their earliest earnings?

[11B4V]

How much is $200 a month in your earliest earning years going to be worth if invested and compounded over your career?

Who the fuck invests $200/month of their earliest earnings?

Seems rather smart to me.