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I'm surprised this top comment has basically nothing backing it up. There are plenty of people with degrees in things like Geology, Psychology, Biology, and Architecture (all 'STEM') with a ton of loans. These degrees tend not to be that lucrative without further higher education.

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When most people say STEM, they mean T, namely compsci, and they mostly mean a job at Google.

S/E/M aren't as appreciated.

> and they mostly mean a job at Google.

I don't wish ill on anyone, but hopefully the incoming recession will re-balance the incentives once more, it's crazy to see all this hate addressed at humanities on a website/forum set-up by a guy made "famous" (among the geek "elites") for writing a book called "Hackers and Painters". Must be those crazy high comps, they now allow them to ignore almost anything in life that's related to "painters".

Psychology as STEM is a stretch.

How is psychology not science?

Psychology is a pseudo science because it doesn't not make testable predictions.

It does tho lol.

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