I suspect that the money taxpayers used to spend on humanities professors in women's studies is a pittance compared to the money they're now wasting because grab-em-by-the-***** regime never took one of those classes. Ignoring half of your population comes at the price of social unrest, which it turns out is very expensive.
My original point is to make a point that biology or academia in general is very romantic to outsiders - but it's not a very +EV play unless (1) you are already very independently wealth, or (2) you are really really into the subject and know what you're signing up for (the long odds, hours and politics). 99% of the people will take this as a pessimistic view and stop there but 1% will actually pursue option (2).
RE: your political point, I submit to you many institutions are very left-leaning and "Woke-1" was defeated by its emphasis on shaming tactics and identity politics - which ironically brought upon the identity politics of the right and the current "regimen's" backlash on defunding DEI initiatives, which hurts ironically the sciences most due to its outsized reliance from NIH/NSF/DARPA etc. And I welcome actually "Woke-2.0" where DSA is actually focused on kitchen table issues such as grocery and health insurance cost; and anticipate that our political pendulum will swing to the left at the next cycle.
Appreciate your comment and opinion, I can't say I agree but I really do respect the honesty and where you are coming from!
I'm not sure who is the next DSA candidate versus the Democratic establishment or Republican candidate (e.g., Francesca Hong v. Dave Crowley, or Abu Sayed v. Mike Rogers). But I encourage you to go to the "machine" (Polymarket, Kalshi) to take position and express your opinion!
Lol you literally clipped my quote (citing the exact candidates) - so thank you for being you! Just a pro-tip, politics is not changing the minds of ideologues, addressing directly to the middle and silent majority and letting them observe your political opponents make their own mistakes. Thank you again for the engagement in my top comment thread.
Given that people use that info to decide how to spend their money on influencing political outcomes, aren't we better off if it's as inaccurate as possible?
"STEM major actively dismissive of other disciplines" has been a candidate category and major red flag everywhere I've worked. Especially the places full of STEM majors.
Yes for me, it's mutually beneficial and gives me a quick way to polarize, filter out people I don't want waste time associating with (and vice versa too - people who are institutionalist, professional managerial class (PMCs); thank you for making my point!)
Just nitpicking but I'd like to point out "professional-managerial class" means the class consisting of both people who are college educated professionals (i.e. most people on Hacker News reading this) _lumped together_ with people whose career is management, not just career management alone. Putting down the PMC is putting down ourselves.
one thing's for sure, there are certain spaces for people who lack people skills, and that seems to be associated with "STEM" skills