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University announces first-ever masters degree in 'Happiness Studies,' will cost students $17,700 (archive.ph)
posted 4 years ago by Ahaus667 4 years ago by Ahaus667 +52 / -0
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– lgbtqwtfbbq 31 points 4 years ago +31 / -0

LOL it's like a joke

I want to study happiness

OK give me $17,000

gives the $17,000 OK now what? I don't feel any happier

But I do: now study me

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– cccpneveragain 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Yeah, just wait it will be like how the big corporations have departments for the whole diversity and alphabet people agenda. They will all have a C.H.O. and a department of happiness to make up BS that wastes everyone else's time and makes them less happy all in the sake of happiness.

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– cartoonericroberts 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

It's happened. The clownification has accelerated so much that reality is now ahead of The Bee.

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– Smith1980 18 points 4 years ago +18 / -0

And will these students promise not to whine about student debt in the future

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– Ahaus667 [S] 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

I wonder how they will pretend that this degree provides happiness

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

I'm running a Ponzi scheme, buy my books to find out how you can too.

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– MuffyMangina 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Start a youtube channel. Get 17k in cash. Make a video of you lighting the money on fire. Better expected outcome.

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– GiveThemNothing 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Women will register in droves and expect $100k+ salaries at graduation.

Then the feminist media will endlessly harp about the "wage gap".

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– DonuteaterReturns 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

This is the logical end point of most standard office jobs requiring a degree. It doesn't matter what the degree is in as long as there is a degree. We joke about starbucks but the truth is your average office drone has a degree they really don't need, and that's where they usually end up.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Correct.

Most office jobs only hire if you have a degree, and it literally does not matter what your degree is. All they care about is knowing that you could sit through a bunch of college lectures about anything and absorb that information.

This is more than half the fucking work force.

Nobody needs to go to college to process TPS reports. A kid straight out of highschool could be doing that job.

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– nuggetpatrol 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Oh lord it's real. It's actually real. It's a thing you can pay to learn. The memes are true. These people have no idea what happiness actually looks like. They have to study it. They're so far down into the hatred well that they've not seen happiness in so long they have to pay to study it.

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– SuspendBeforeYouBan 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

It's pretty obvious what they're trying to do here. Change the definition of happiness such that wokeism makes people happy even though the opposite is true.

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– Assassin47 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

"Greetings friend! Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well you've got the power inside you right now! So use it - and send $1 to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay, eternal happiness is just a dollar away!"

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– subbookkeeper 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

I honestly respect the predation on fools that this represents. It's awe inspiring.

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– Assassin47 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

It's kinda like BLM. When that bitch said guilty white folk are giving her money for nothing, I clapped. Don't hate the player.

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– AntonioOfVenice 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Isn't this just Positive Psychology?

Maybe that did not sound good enough to persuade people to part with their hard-earned money, or in this case, with their parents' hard-earned money.

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– lapalapa 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Those people don't have the answers to happiness.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Devil's advocate: happiness would be a fascinating subject to study, both at the micro and macro level. Just don't expect that degree to land you any jobs.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

I imagine it would by like the rest of the field of psychology. Psychologists can't read minds, but they continue to unravel the mystery of the human mind.

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