Why Do People Look Down on Arts/Humanities Graduates?

deirdremf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492401#Comment_121492401

If by this:

Sometimes that is simply the correct advice.

you mean "upskilling", then it's fine for the individual, although it will take quite a bit of time.

The problem with that though is that we live in a society where if everybody did what you suggest if would end up with everyone having great skills and fighting for the same few jobs. Only a few would be able to win that lottery, so everyone would be back at square one.

So what the OP was probably getting at is that we have created a hugely unfair society, and we need a social (i.e. socialist) society-wide solution, as the dog-eat-dog approach doesn't work on the scale of a whole society although it can work individually for the chosen few - but even then many fall en route.

deirdremf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492462#Comment_121492462

Hey, I hope you aren't looking down on people with no degree at all - of whom there are many!

BillyHaelyRaeCyrus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492903#Comment_121492903

Im renting on my own in Dublin. But we own homes in Ireland so I feel shamed for it

Beasty

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