It's all right wing hedge funds? So why do they lean left?
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It's at very least a pyramid scheme. We graduate 100-200 history majors a year per university, and have 5,000 universities with history departments of 10-20 people. That's each university, every year. It's expected that the cream of the crop rise to the top, but we've churned so many out we wouldn't know good if it bit us. Heck, we might actually punish good.
The best part is we don't aim History majors at jobs outside of academia. The ability to research at that level would be amazing for businesses. This should be a great job making degree. No one is taught how to promote it or even apply outside of academia. Then if someone comes from the outside with research, we then say that person isn't good enough because they haven't worked in the pyramid scheme.
It's a perfect system to exploit if you knew how and wanted power or money.
The affixing of “pseudo-“ to any and all -ologists who haven’t prostrated themselves at the foot of the golden calf known as “the academy” (and the general public’s propensity to “trust the experts” and shut up) is truly one of the most damaging attitudes of our modern “enlightened” world
The same with Information/Information Sciences/Library Information Sciences. All of those degrees get pigeonholed in low-paying Ponzi schemes, where the younger grads get sucked into toxic, soul crushing organizations, while the people at the top make 6 figures for essentially glad handing politicians.
The soft sciences as well. I had a class on business anthropology and was told it was evil to even consider.