theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
This makes no sense. Someone who ends up 30K in debt with a humanities degree is not worth it. It would be better off for that person to just learn a trade or get an apprenticeship, or try to go into the workforce as a truck driver, UPS man, postal employee, garbage man, customer service, collections or whatever at a call center or office.
You can't do anything with a humanities degree. If you apply for a job as say an insurance adjuster--something that pays about 35K and doesn't require a degree--you do not necessarily have a leg up on the next person just because you have a humanities degree...just tens of thousands in debt.
well like i said and i have always said, the issue is community development, culture and intellectual development
imo black people are poor and live in bad neighborhoods with bad schools and are involved with the justice system fundamentally because black people are uneducated, that is the root of the problem
in other words the issue isnt just about cash, but even if it was, there are people that graduate with zero debt, so the 30K is more of a personal issue and a bureaucratic issue and when you take into account the higher earning potential, the higher promotion potential and the lower unemployment rate, it can very well be worth it terms of cash
but again its not really about cash, its about community development, culture and intellectual development, in those terms a broke humanities major with 30K in debt is a good thing
who would you rather have living around you or what helps a neighborhood deal with crime and bad schools, a broke, unemployed high school graduate or a broke unemployed humanities major????
a lot of this talk about gentrification is put in racial terms, but i would assert its better to look at it in terms of educational level, a lot of this so called gentrification is just broke, unemployed humanities majors with 30K in debt moving into poor neighborhoods and then bringing in higher earning people later, who ask the question i just posted above
on a personal level 30K in debt might be bad but at a community development level an educated person is a building block of a strong prosperous community regardless of their level of debt or employment
as far as personal situations, we can trade anecdotes all day long but in the long run the humanities major will end up making more money then a high school graduate, there isnt anyway around those stats