The discussion of humanities and it's usefulness is weird to me as someone who got an engineering degree, a decade later got a political science degree and is currently having difficulty being considered for at least one land use job because I don't have an anthropology background
Anthro is a surprisingly versatile PhD discipline. I see a crazy variety number of jobs where it's cited as a potential qualification.
I think a lot of it gets pigeonholed into Jane Goodall and ancient Egypt in undergrad but yeah, there's a ton of useful applications for the discipline
Discussion about “usefulness” of PhDs should be kept completely separate from discussion about usefulness of other degrees, imo Issue with PhDs is that doing one typically hurts your versatility. The same jobs a BA would get fresh out of college are typically not open to you as a fresh PhD
I generally agree but part of the justification for underfunding humanities departments seem to be that they are not useful But yes, the PhD job market itself looks really different than the undergrad job market