alt Hacker News> You don't study mathematics or computer science and information theory to produce commodities. You study them to transform your mind.
That's nonsense. Of course you study them to meet demand.
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bsoqk • today at 9:23 AM
People who study STEM for the enrichment of their intellect are privileged. Most of us had to study STEM (or whatever else) because we had bills to pay.
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danny_codes • today at 3:39 PM
That's not why I studied. Maybe abstractly to prepare myself for the workforce, but the primary goal was to learn.
Unfortunately many countries like the US are very under-developed, and have trained it's citizenry to approach education as job training. This is obviously an abject failure, and probably a contribution to our anemically slow and pathetic growth rate.
Krei-se • today at 9:03 AM
sad
> you study them to meet demand
nobody who has ever achieved notoriety in any intellectual field ever did it to "meet demand." if your goal is to be an interchangeable widget that produces value as part of a corporate machine that exists for the enrichment of your shareholders, you are certainly free to choose that path, but don't imagine that is the limit of human existence. also, don't be surprise when you are replaced by AI, because it is a superior widget.