[beezlebroxxxxxx]

> You’re already unemployed if you focus on history or literature but we still learn it.

Most people are still employed if they focus on history or literature. They just might not be making a lot of money or working in history or literature, though some do. Plenty of people in highly "employable" degrees also find themselves unemployed for a long time once they graduate.

The reality is that getting a college degree, regardless of the major, increases your chances of employment afterwards and potential lifelong earnings enormously over only a HS degree.

But as you implied, most of the worst trends in higher-ed, a real corruption of its original intentions and values, have come from a obsession with the idea that higher-ed is solely about employee training.

[lupire]

Higher Ed was invented as vocational training for clergy.