[taneq]

I agree with your first point, that we don't need all individual people to be productive. I don't think you can say, though, that your "me-too" app builders and hipster baristas are all employed deliberately in useless jobs by philanthropists as a form of charity.

[rglullis]

It's no form of charity, quite the opposite. It's just that it is the current way of "the system" to keep the status quo.

It is already bad that people are getting 4 year degrees and ending up in an useless job. The vicious, even worse part is that it still manages to extract $100k+ out of them in the process.