Originally posted by MRT144
i think the better inference is that unique skills that are better than other's within a limited pool of talent is what leads to higher income and whether that talent is prized by society.
i think the better inference is that unique skills that are better than other's within a limited pool of talent is what leads to higher income and whether that talent is prized by society.
Anyone can get a history degree. Anyone can get a poli sci degree. Virtually anyone can get a philosophy degree.
The amount of people who can get high-level science and engineering degrees is less. It's simply harder to do.
That is why the pool is smaller, that is why they get paid more, and that is why there's way too many "philosophy" grads than any kind of reasonable job for them to use that in. They end up doing something completely unrelated.
But at the end of the day, you can reasonably make a correlation with intelligence (at least from a reasoning/problem solving perspective) versus the arts and sciences. Arts people clearly would be better at, well, artistic stuff. But let's be honest -- that means ****.

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