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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.

How do you judge the caliber of a philosopher?

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

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

Well, at least until recently.