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@nevitwt This is basically just work except with work you don't have to take things home

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@m966021 Same. I wanted to go get my masters and then PhD in philosophy but it seems completely futile, especially given the climate where universities are gearing to fund more STEM programs in the future.

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@firsttosettle @m966021 Yes but with degree-flation admission to good PhD programs is nearly impossible with a bachelors in philosophy.

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@markmartin The Daytona 500! But only race in the last 10 laps. Pit stops for gas at 13 to go? Was that normal prior to these next gen cars?

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@markmartin I often wonder what would it be like if MM were racing in this era with the cars very similar to each other...

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@DrKhan_do @SchuethAnna It's really going to depend on your field. Institutions are rapidly investing and expanding in their STEM programs, usually with some sort of outside investment from certain companies. As a result, they are adding more and more positions so more opportunity opens up.

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@JOttoPohl1 I wonder how the background of such professors play into it. But I also wonder if it's because the role of the modern professor is to play mentor, teacher, researcher, administrator, writer and additional social/family roles.

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@IBookWins @andyantiles_ Oh no! No ambition! Just enjoying life! How horrible!

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@FGeneration001 It's going to depend a lot on where you are. In the less educated populations that are mostly blue collar you can be held in contempt. In other places that are highly educated like the NE corridor, a bachelors pretty much means nothing, it is only a gateway.

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@eyup_io @LocasaleLab I wish this were true but unfortunately it is not

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@GwyonRev @Athens_Stranger Plato is spectacular because he meets you where you are at. If you are in HS, you will understand the dialogue as a HS student. When you are in college, you will derive more. And then when you are a philosopher who has been reading for 20+ years, you will come back and find more.

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@Me03674994 @Empress_Moo @VigilantFox I wouldn't even posit Socrates as the "greatest" greek thinker. This title belongs to Aristotle or Plato. And it's widely known that Plato transitioned somewhere to his own philosophy in the middle dialogues. So he used Socrates as a mouthpiece, even in his best work "Republic"

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@Athens_Stranger @PaulAnleitner @ChrisKindaReads 100% agree. Adults barely grasp the concept of Nihilism and the depth of Dostoyevsky's writings.

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@mcgillmd921 But it's also been argued that it was because of the betrayal of Rome's deepest values that it brought itself down.

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@shreyabasu003 I want to get out of the NE corridor. I don't like it. It's full of haughty wannabe intellectuals and old liberal white women who talk about dismantling the patriarchy even though they never had to work in their lives due to their husbands working in accounting

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@amandakstroud @megha_lilly It's really too bad.

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@owroot In other words, it was lack of real-ness in myself. Maybe I should just let myself enjoy life. Pick skateboarding back up (in a non-punk way), drive my old Camaro, go to car shows and get a normal ass job I don't need to take home at night.

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@owroot Going through this now. For years I have studied philosophy. Convinced myself, "Go back to school, read all the time, try and become a philosophy professor."
But I recently had the revelation that I really don't like reading books all day nor do I enjoy sitting still

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@rjanezic @DrEmmaZang You know, you really don't need to have a superpower to work a job

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@amandakstroud @megha_lilly Sounds like an inner city problem tbh