Humanities should take a back seat to tech: a claim for STEM’s innovation and rewards. From the editorial:

Nowadays it’s becoming harder and harder to disagree with the fact that one should dump humanities studies: A career in technology is guaranteed to yield one of the best returns compared to any other field….

As long as there is a demand for innovation and convenience (and there will be), the tech sector will continue to grow. In fact, it’s quite irrelevant to call it just the tech sector considering how many industries it can incorporate itself into….

The biggest difference between humanities and tech is that tech is much more innovative. Meaning that creating something new is a lot easier. It’s quite hard to make something new or discover something new for that matter in humanities. It’s hard to formulate new laws that have never existed in the path, alongside a freelance or entrepreneurial career in humanities.

Nowadays, most people who dedicate years to humanities studies tend to continue their journey in order to find a job in academics and then teach the subjects they were studying.

Tech studies usually convince students to drop out and start their careers much earlier and create something new for the market. This helps them benefit not only themselves but the consumers around them.

Therefore, I’d say that it’s completely bogus that tech would ever suffer the fate of humanities studies. It’s much more flexible and customizable, thus making it a great career choice for the future.

h/t rbthisted

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