“in order to nourish them while they await their positions which they will fill with their brilliance.”
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At least they’ll fil sumpin’ wit’ sumpin’ alright. Seriously, people are saying that this is a different kind of recession but it is not a recession, it is a crash/depression and it won’t be over any time soon. This is going to go on for many years, this is the result of decades of doing the wrong things and it won’t be fixed in a few months or even in two or three years. If people don’t wise up and return to logical thinking it may go on indefinitely.
I have been expecting something like this for thirty years or more, in fact it took much longer to happen than I expected so by the time it got here I had gotten complacent and was beginning to think maybe I would be lucky and it wouldn’t happen in my lifetime. There have been plenty of warnings from people like Milton Freidman over the years but they went unheeded, now we suffer the consequences.
Where do those history degrees fit?
As for ‘marketable’ skills, why do you assume that those with a degree don’t also have a trade? You can do both.