Yes, there really is no truly useful endeavor except science-based skills.
I’ve come to this conclusion more and more, but perhaps I am biased.
Thank you. I am biased toward mathematics and science too. But I will not say mathematics and science is for everyone. For those that learn and use it, it makes life a little more interesting and rewarding.
I personally have to know how something functions in order to know when it malfunctions. Then I have to know how to fix or work around it. Mathematics teaches deductive logic and problem solving skills.
Mathematics, or as some say arithmetic, has always been one of the fundamental skills a child should develop an early age along with reading and writing. Note the absence of these skills in the lower economic groups. As witnessed by the recent protests, life can be very frustrating when you can’t read, write, or compute.
Granted liberal arts types excel at reading and writing more often than science types (I believe they refer to us as geeks), but it’s the compute part where they they miss the mark. A lot of what they say doesn’t make sense logically (false=0, true=1) and they are in a transitive state that does not exist (maybe=?) in the real world. To work around this inconvenience, they have developed a new math where 2 + 2 = whatever so that little Johnny will not be psychologically scarred or otherwise impaired for being the ignoramus he is. Now Johnny can feel confident he is qualified and smart enough to be President someday.
This is why the space program is focused on Muslims and not Mars.