[atleastoptimal]

Hilarious that the article is framed as a humanities vs sciences thing even though the caliber of philosophers who can get these jobs at labs are the top 0.1% in their field, and wouldn't have trouble finding a job elsewhere, whereas you could get a good-paying job as an engineer at a relatively lower percentile.

[asdfman123]

They're doing well because philosophy majors are usually just very smart people.

Not sure if the degree itself is necessarily that helpful beyond signaling intellectual competence.

[kbelder]

How do you judge the caliber of a philosopher?

[applicative]

There are only a few thousand academic philosophers in America total. 0.1% is thus … a few

[cliglot]

> whereas you could get a good-paying job as an engineer at a relatively lower percentile.

Well, at least until recently.