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PhD is a scam that sucks hardwork from smartest individuals while giving them poverty, mental health problems, significant opportunity cost and graduating them with absolutely no skills that are required to make a living in market economy. I have said it multiple times unless you are doing a CS PhD or you are an Olympiad medalist, PhD is a significant net negative for your life and career.

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Everything you said about CS PhDs also applies to a lesser (but not insignificant) extent to postgraduate and undergraduate degrees.

You don't need degrees to make it into the tech world. Yes some companies might ignore you in the very beginning of your career if you don't have a degree but there is so much demand out there for tech workers that you will find a job for sure and after one or two years nobody will care that you don't have a degree. By the time your peers graduate you will have multiple years of experience in the field and that's what everyone cares about.

Oh, and doing a CS degree you hardly learn anything about programming and most professors teaching you have never coded anything longer than 50 lines.

I'm not in CS, and it was neither a net negative on my life or career.

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