[tclancy]

Wow, that's quite the Devil's Advocacy. The idea that arts & humanities are dead ends seems to be in direct opposition with most advanced cultures.

>there is a higher likelihood that at the end of your degree, you'll actually get a job.

With that company. When your healthcare and your education are controlled by a single corporation, how are you any better off than some miner in the 19th century buying his equipment from the company store?

[xexers]

> With that company

only temporarily. Once your working CV is strong enough you're free to move to another company

[mtberatwork]

...assuming the other company isn't flooded with other candidates with the same subsidized business degree.

[xexers]

As apposed to now? Where you have 40 history PHDs all going for a single professor slot... and at the same time have tons of positions go vacant for months because there are no qualified candidates?

It may not be perfect, but it might be better than what we have now... Although, I'm not saying it will be... I'll reserve judgement until the data arrives.

[mindcrime]

Which is a reasonable assumption to make, since we already know that - in the real world - there are opportunities to move from company to company for a wide variety of reasons.