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The scam that these humanities graduate progams run is diabolical. Imagine encouraging some chump to borrow 70k to get an MA in English. The gap between the moral self-regard of these people and the way they live their lives is unfathomable.
Yes. How dare these diabolical cowards keep scamming people into academia? Crazy thought, guys: some folks actually want to go into research, or teaching, or publishing within the humanities. That's why these degrees and programs exist. That's what they're supposed to be for. Are there a lot of frustrated chumps out there with MAs, slinging caramel macchiatos at their local SBux? Sure. But those people deluded themselves. They had no idea what they wanted from life. That's their own fault, and not the fault of the institutions that granted their degrees. Humanities MAs are specific degrees for people who want to follow very specific paths (mostly within academia). Degree collectors, slackers, and burnouts who happen to pursue MAs have only themselves to blame when they decide it's not for them. Those people should have known what they were getting themselves into. And if they actually thought that an MA in English was going to help them in the non-academic professional world, well, that's their own damned fault. They should have done their research, no pun intended.