When there is little chance of getting a job in those particular disciplines? I have a friend who majored in philosophy and he is working at Starbucks as a coffee barrister. He has student loans of about $350 a month. I have another friend who graduated from Brown with a degree in French Lit and his student loans are about $500 a month. He works at McDonald's. Just remember that degree costs money and unless you can pay for it with a lucrative job or scholarships why bother?|||For some people it's not just about the money. Sometimes they don't even care about the money at all. It's about getting an education in something they love.|||I can't see any reason why he got the Best Answer. Matt said at least the same if not much better explained. Report Abuse |||The US is a free country....so let them be free.|||It would be a sad day for humanity if people stopped studying these things entirelly simply because there's no big demand in the marketplace for them. The humanities are where our sensibilities truly lie, We live in a world of philistines, but that doesn't mean we all have to give in. Why read books? Why go to museums? It doesn't pay either. I majored in philosophy myself. I work a boring media job today. You're right: Not much in terms of marketing value. But I am going back for a master's of economics. The subject happens to genuinely interest me too.|||They are easy degrees that have little to do with discipline or actually doing any thing like making money and supporting them selves let alone a family.|||Apparently the people who choose these easy majors believed when they were told, "You have to have a college degree to get a job." Any sane, thinking person knows that to be a lie. I haven't needed a college degree for anything I have done for the last 25 years as a truck driver.|||Is this what University has come to, learning or money? Philosophy is everything, the world around us, fine tuned from all thoughts of man into one fluid motion.... It is priceless. Philosophy started University from the Greeks Plato and Aristotle to the Liebnitz od Germany. Thought, Challenging of Thought, Lateral Thought and Revolutionary Change is what has led history. Why is it today that we think so much of money in our so-called blessed 21st Century when the greats of the 17th,18th and 19th Centuries lived Learning? It is also interesting to note that in Norway Philosophers were hired to deal with the economy! Is that not proof of a decent country acknowledging the universal status of Philosophy? Philosophers were once an intrique part of society. Where did it all go wrong? The love of Capitalism could point to the answer. It should also be noted that Philosophy as it is the core of everything influences everything we do, so an accomplished academic study would improve ourselves. I am not a Arts student, not a Political Science student but from Mechanical Engineering in a crumbling Australia whom has experienced the closure of Philosophy and other social studies from certain Universities. The fact I do not academically study Philosophy but hold it so HIGHLY REGARD should prove to you why it should be studied. I blame the way Governments and especially ours has gone to allow University(just as important as Primary and Secondary) to become a commodity. Perhaps one day we will forget about another discipline just because it may not profiteer. You are only asking a question but please never question the point of studying the core of all mankind. Never give these capitalists a reason to take away man's heart and soul.

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