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Originally Posted by pauldun170
I'm not comfortable with elected officials deciding on which degrees should be subsidized.
I'm also not comfortable with tying education policy\subsidies to market conditions as interpreted by lobbyists.
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I can understand this.
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Originally Posted by pauldun170
High demand fields naturally drive college applications\degree choices and attempting to increase the supply unnatural and politically driven.
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I disagree with this though.
Kids pick their majors for any number of reasons, many of which are nowhere near as logical or well thought out as market demand. The status society places in a field, the relative ease or difficulty of the coursework, that a student may simply enjoy a subject, a student's belief that even though work is difficult to find in a field they will be the exception, or even what their friends are doing can all play a role. The limitation of finding gainful employment may not slap them in the face until graduation.
Kids are dumb, they do dumb shit. That's why grad school exists.
