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A few things in response to this.

1) I find it pretty damning of whatever jobs this poster is referring to. Are they so boring and singularly focused that having a broad education is a waste of time? Do they have say in any important decisions that cross disciplines? It's like when people say that a computer science or any higher education is unneeded to be a developer. It's true for a certain set of jobs, but those positions always seem very boring to me anyway.

2) The difference between education and Education. Higher education is not job training. It's not a YouTube tutorial. You are learning ways of thinking and analyzing, over the course of a few years with the direct help of paid teachers. When you have great teachers, anything is possible. If you think that any month long MOOC, tips-and-tricks blog post, or conference talk will have that effect on your brain, you're mistaken.