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STEAM just correctly recognizes that STEM people systematically underrate the importance of history and social studies.

It’s not a question of importance, but abundance.

Looking at salaries there is an over abundance of history and social studies graduates. It’s simply a supply vs demand imbalance, and one that has real consequences.

Many STEM fields are also over saturated, and some arts fields can make a good career path. But, nuances are not really the point of this discussion.

Yes, you have successfully identified a structural issue with modern capitalism.

Care to point out what you believe is the structural issue?

That the labor of historians and social scientists is undervalued compared to the benefit they bring to humanity. There is no incentive for a large tech corp to have historians as C-level officers, even though it's a no brainier logically.

This happens because shareholder value is the only thing corporations are optimized for.

Not underrate. There are only so many hours to spend learning. Current school systems put Math on the same footing with History, PE, foreign language...etc.

And they should offer Arts, Social Studies, and History (ASH!?) in response.

Social Studies majors systematically overrate the epistemological integrity of their fields.

Yeah, yet there should still be more social studies people in power at tech companies.

A major in philosophy is not required to have a conscience.

You can have the best intentions and cause tremendous harm to the world.

> Yeah, yet there should still be more social studies people in power at tech companies.

Why do you believe that?

Because tech companies are in way over their heads with all the social problems they've created.

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