There are many sacred cows and I believe many of those entitled in that way could have the same opinion.
I've personally known a few PhDs that get them for the title, and they were lazy in the first place. There was this one guy I worked for who got a PhD in the easiest thing he could rationalize and targeted acquiring it from the lowest bar to entry. Only so he could say he had a PhD because, and this is what he told me: nobody will ask me what my PhD is in because they will assume it's related to my line of work (cyber security). I doubt most PhDs have this line of thinking, but there are a few outliers, clearly.
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There are many sacred cows and I believe many of those entitled in that way could have the same opinion.
I've personally known a few PhDs that get them for the title, and they were lazy in the first place. There was this one guy I worked for who got a PhD in the easiest thing he could rationalize and targeted acquiring it from the lowest bar to entry. Only so he could say he had a PhD because, and this is what he told me: nobody will ask me what my PhD is in because they will assume it's related to my line of work (cyber security). I doubt most PhDs have this line of thinking, but there are a few outliers, clearly.