How many jobs are there, for which recruiters are looking for someone who majored in English in college?
I'm sure that doesn't apply to MBA courses, but probably most liberal arts courses.
There’s more about that in The New Yorker article, which is a long but useful read despite being from a liberal atheist elite perspective. It taps into a lot of larger questions, but finds liberalism is a bit befuddled as to the answers, though the article suggests some.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major
The problem is, whereas somebody who majored in English some decades ago could be assumed to have the ability to read with understanding, analyze with logic, and write with clarity and persuasiveness (qualities which would be in demand in business), this is largely no longer the case.
An English degree in 2023 mostly means you sat through four years of indoctrination in wokeness.
When I was in college, I realized that I needed a job. I couldn’t afford to major in English, unless I wanted to be a teacher. I didn’t want to do that, so I decided to simply read all the books that my English major friends read in literature class, maybe more than they read. I took each author and read three of his books, before moving to the next. I loved them all. It was exciting. Well, not all of them, I have to admit to giving up on a few. But my English major friends hated the books that I loved. Their literary analysis ruined the fantasy and the excitement. I wish now that I had asked them why they hated Hemingway. I suppose that I was afraid to ask, afraid to sound like a fool.
I didn’t care about the politics in the books. I am much more discriminating, now. I won’t open a book that I disagree with.