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I should get free money because I contribute so much to society with my degree in egyptology, minor in basket weaving...
I know it's complicated, you could write hundreds of pages about the problems with the academia industrial complex. But there's a reason people did the same thing as their parents for thousands of years. It's an extremely recent trend, rooted in narcissism and entitlement, to go pursue your dreams at the expense of being able to feed yourself, raise a family, etc. Not everybody gets to be a rock star or actor.
Exactly, the reason was to survive and pass this 'knowledge' down the family so they also had money, even back then school was only for the rich. Now we've evolved so far to have the absolute best fitting and most motivated people for the job instead of what your parents used to do, exactly what we NEED to tackle, or the rich families will only get richer without any effort, these people feel like they deserve to have that money and that is real entitlement. To be able to study what you desire (and it's not free, everyone pays taxes, are you like 5 ) is what we need, people who don't give a fuck about what they're doing all day aren't going to innovate. Nearly all great minds from the past have basically neglected what their parents nearly forced them to do because the whole family did it (famous Isaac Newton is an example).