re: #148 freetoken

Earlier today I was reading a story about a college, in Arkansas I believe, which is renaming their Physics department as the Physics and Engineering department, to emphasize STEM and so their students with these degrees have a better chance of getting a job.

Basically, it’s an admission that an academic field like physics is something which for them is not the future. Rather, they want to turn out students who will make good minions for corporations.

This is one of my concerns about the very acronym “STEM” and the motivation behind it - viewing knowledge and people through the lens of economic function.

Anyway, this is Trump’s America - a person has value only in so far as a corporation has use for them.

So yes, in such a myopic state our true wealth, which is people, will diminish.

In fairness, when students are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars of debt being able to earn a good living isn’t an unreasonable desire.