The Humanities and a University education

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In the Canterbury Tales, the Clerk of Oxford is highly praised as a learned man who's always seen with his Aristotle, but he's a poor man.
The proliferation of finance and white collar service jobs meant over the last 50 years meant that you could study for a humanities degree and get a job in consulting if you were intelligent. This was particularly the case in Britain and Europe more generally, but also to a lesser extent in America.

What is the future of non-STEM fields? It's a duller world without them

https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-c...job-2026-3

Intelligent thinkers will always find a way to thrive regardless of their degrees.  I read the part of the article that was free and, if I am reading it correctly, a young man got a history degree and is now concerned that he will have a difficult time monetizing it because there isn't a huge demand for history degrees.  No surprise there.

Also, I wouldn't conflate his situation with non-Stem fields drying up, there is plenty of thinking and research being done in non-stem fields.