If your PhD isn’t fully funded by someone else, you’re not smart enough to earn a PhD in any meaningful subject.
They didn't choose the right major.
I did not pay to get my PhD. My graduate education was paid by federal and state agencies, wealthy donors, and private business. I have been steadily employed throughout the 14 years since getting my PhD.
One could argue that someone who is not smart enough to do the market research for their potential career field prior to graduate school is not actually smart enough to do grad school. Actually, the time to do the market research is prior to declaring a major in undergraduate school. There are no jobs in "studies"; don't waste your time on it.
“I know people with multiple Masters degrees plus PhD degree who can barely remain employed.
It is their relentless sense of entitlement that makes them annoying and nearly impossible to tolerate for more than 20 minutes. Of course they cannot find lucrative jobs. They are disagreeable and nasty people.”
Well, they are also the people who continue to call themselves “an unemployed (fill in the blank) going on three years now. Guess what? After three years, you are NOT what you think you are. You are just unemployed, someone who needs to re-train, re-educate or just get a freaking job even if it is “beneath you.”
Some people can’t get over the fact that there bullshit, Japanese corporate style middle management useless work went away because it was what it was. Or the need for manual drawings they did at Wrecham and Howe, Architects, may not be quite what it was. And god forbid you should suggest that they throw themselves into the arena and compete on their own...
As long as these people can keep going to school, it’s all good bro!