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by mikecarlucci 5617 days ago
Not to troll, but Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci etc. were all technical people with understanding of philosophy, art, history, mathematics. Obviously these are cherry-picked examples, but having only technical knowledge isn't a great solution either.
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I never said anything about technical only knowledge. I myself took a few art classes, and enjoyed them.

What I said is that people pick these majors, and then we see these crazy unemployment stats. Most of these unemployed people are not qualified to do anything that society is willing to pay money for.

OK. Just making sure. Sometimes "the arts" get too much of a bad wrap here.