Mark Cuban Sees Greater Demand for Liberal Arts Majors
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Feb.17 -- Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, discusses his views on the Trump administration and the future of jobs. He speaks with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson at the NBA All-Star Technology Summit in New Orleans.
By the sound of comments seems like STEM majors didnt even teach you guys how to do research! Any well respected scientest and engineer will attest to the need of the arts and humanities. And how crucial STEM and A/H are together. (Neil dygrass tyson is a huge supporter of the arts!)
They will learn the subjects, not MAJOR in them. That is the catch.
I think that it’s strange how true this has rung given the state of the world today. STEM majors are getting cut left and right out of their jobs (unless they’re first responders or in medicine) while the liberal arts majors have been able to start businesses in the midst of high unemployment rates due to COVID-19. You’re absolutely right in that all fields are important, unfortunately, a lot of people out there think like Isaac and don’t see the value in an interdisciplinary approach to business and many have not been able to cope as well.
I don't see engineering jobs go away, but something like data mining or data science might, just be cause of automation. But yes, Cuban is right, creativity is what still separate humans from machines for the foreseeable future. Does that mean students should get art degrees from economic perspective? Probably no.
Not "art," Arts. As in Liberal Arts. Outliers commonly misappropriate the term.
My dad was laid off in both recessions. Engineering is a joke, but not as much of a joke as liberal arts and business. The only jobs that will not go away are those that are so highly skilled that they can't go away or those that require hard labor.
Right. But you need to give reasons for why you think engineering jobs won't go away.
The truth is you can be successful no matter what you studied.
Chatgpt
Yeah less competition for him and me, go for it!!!
Mark Cuban does not realize that anyone can be a free-thinker without a degree.
ranger123789 that the type of bs only people without degrees tell themselves, LOL!
@ranger123789
stop regurgitating ignorant bullshit and start thinking for yourself, my friend
Yea also without degree you lose 9/10 chances to show your potential
Yeh but what would you think about?
That's true. You don't need to have a degree to really think we'll or expand your mind. I think most nowadays only go to college because it's expected of them, the sake of having a degree, and status. There are only a few degrees worthwhile in university nowadays.
I know this video is years old, but still... My advice is to be liberal in your education while getting real training in a marketable trade.
In other words: Don't get a liberal arts degree. If you can, _do_ get liberal arts education (logic, philosophy, theology, music, etc.) while getting a degree or certificate for an in-demand trade.
This way, you can be a more rounded, critically-thinking human being while also employed and, thus, able to put food on your table and pay your bills (including that ridiculous student loan debt if you couldn't---or didn't---avoid it).
@HickoryDickory86 Your logic is plausible but what you are missing is that liberal arts majors can go into vocational fields of study if you supplement your degree with vocational minors, certifications, licenses, and/or graduate degrees. A liberal arts degree by itself might not have much scope with exception of maybe copywriting, journalism, teaching, or a few more not so lucrative career being the only options. But if you go the route I mentioned you can get into banking, consulting, finance, law, IT, and much more.
I disagree with most of these comments below. He is correct. If you have a good liberal arts education which teaches you how to think, listen and be critical, you have values that are endless. What you make of these values is up to you.
In my job, we think “safety” and the next cigarette break.
The only time when a liberal arts major is awesome is when she/he gives me fresh fries from McDonald’s during my lunch break.
anonymous anonymous Who’s gonna correct you, give professional advice, be able to access academic sources, debates? It’s not impossible to do it alone, it just requires way more time. I’d rather choose an already working structure.
As a Liberal Arts major, All the skills I learned could have easily been self taught. My personal advice is to just stick with STEM.
Oh by the way, "Critical Thinking" is not a skill, it is a trait everyone should have, I believe it is called Common Sense.
Except most college degrees have foundation in Liberal Arts. I took 3 levels of English and 6 humanities and I’m a damn Cs major
To anyone reading this, get a degree in a STEM Field: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math !!!
Or Economics.
or accounting. Thats a really good major with high demand
Ignorant
Right. It's STEM or go home.
@@FireVortex720 I suggest to get a Master's in Economics. It will give you more opportunities in the field.
Having a Liberal Arts degree does help cause once everything even tech field becomes oversaturated and becomes automated it ruins the imagination and makes people lazy cause everything will be auomatic calculation. Liberal Arts teaches you how to think, abstractly and outside of the box. Liberal Arts majors shape the world and STEM majors make the world run. There are people who are Liberal Arts majors and they become business managers, program managers etc.
creative processes can be learned.
delirous8 I got a job without a college degree, I make more money (overtime!) than the average Liberal Arts degree holder. In construction, you don’t need imagination, and you sure as hell don’t want lazy people. Crane operations, heavy equipment operations, truck driver, supervisor position, a little bit of project management, i get paid to do it all. I could go to college now and pay off my debt with ease, but why waste my money on a degree when I already got knowledge, experience, and networking. I also have military background as well, that’s a plus too. Sorry I got a little carried away with my resume. Maybe one day I’ll try get a degree in Civil Engineering or maybe reboot my career and join another Apprenticeship Program. 💪🏽
TWO FORTY BRAVO OPERATOR congratulations for having to work overtime.
TWO FORTY BRAVO OPERATOR seen a job post for an Apprentice journeyman lineman, starting pay at $31 an hour. No college degree, no experience, no problem.
delirous8 business manager? Program manager? Lol they will just let you have that huh ha ha delusional
Philosophy major here. I agree with Mark Cuban that once we've filled all the technical skills in society, the skills of creative and critical thinking will be more valuable simply because these will be the skills that will be more in demand. I also think it's economically worth it to get a liberal arts degree, because critical thinking is a skill that needs a certain kind of environment to develop: A university. Universities teach students discipline and gives students access to (typically) elite people in society. So, unless you already grew up in a critically educated environment, some people need to go to universities to learn how to master these everyday life skills. Secondly, any student who has sat down to write a standardized test that focuses on critical thinking skills like the SATs, LSATs, or GMATs will know that basic everyday skills in math, reading, and reasoning, are skills a lot of people have, but only a few people master these skills. Universities give students the opportunity to hone and master these basic everyday critical thinking skills.
He's right.
I was totally thinking about this "make-work" concept. I want to create a non-profit company that creates jobs that have a social impact.
Liberal arts majors can be augmented if you supplement a cluster of business or technical courses and/or earn a professional degree. Also, there are other jobs just require a BA. Overall, liberal education gives you a great foundation that other highly technical degrees don't.
My ability to spit for 10 feet is more useful than a liberal arts degrees.
Ignorant
@@deciduouselizabeth9017 Denier. Someone sounds really bitter because they don't like to hear what they NEED.
Rhetoric.
@@infamouscrusader3363 May be that someone is you.
@@santanumohapatra1326 No.
I think Cuban is absolutely right.
Would you like fries with that Liberal Arts Degree?
This guy got lucky with one big sale and has been spewing crap ever since. People like to think he's correct because he has money.
This guy just hustles people for venture capital. I would do the opposite of what he says.
Americorps is a giant joke.
Mark Cuban and other technocrats have to go around preaching crazy disruptive technological propaganda. That is how you get the investment money coming in. This guy literally just talks shit and inflates bubbles for a living. He's a shit talking salesman, selling everyone pipe dreams and imaginary futures.
Let's be honest here. Mark Cubans shitty businesses and technology won't keep water clean, electric and telecom lines running. They won't take care of the elderly, they wont change the oil in your car. They won't grow food or deliver the food to where it needs to go.
He's literally just selling some stupid ideas and technology that nobody wants or needs.
He's a fucking snake oil salesman who needs attention to keep his bubble inflated.
I would do the opposite of everything he says.
Funny enough he is 1000% right 7 years later lol
Man they need WD40 for that chair! So annoying
when "successful" people tell it like it is, the cognitive dissonance on his face
Modern day version of “let them eat cake”.
Soooooooo duuuuuuuuumb!!!!!!!!! I like Cuban too. Now if he had said double major in English and stats, then that's a different story
So Cuban will be hiring Liberal Arts graduates?
Alot of corporations hire people in the liberal arts. I mean you see it everyday, people with English, Psych degrees are in various fields like Investment Banking and Finance.
Those are generally companies that require any degree.
@@dietcokeisdelicious5006 They only hire liberal arts graduates if they can prove they have the skill and experience. Having a highly technical degree is only a de facto requirement. It does not always have to be a deal breaker.
black female sociologist on deck!
let them eat cake you're ignorant dude.
He knows value of money but he a singular view of investment. Example, he said one return of construction. But in reality construction of infrastructure has a continual return and unforseen return.
this guy clearly has child(ren) going to school for liberal arts. just a thought. could be wrong who knows.
Cubans conclusion is to the point. Trumpf is a leisure business investor. I believe Trump is clueless in anything else. Trumps ventures are hotel and golf courses.
what happened to the bolts coming out of his neck?
His position on liberal arts degrees is absolute nonsense, demand will always be for a balance of liberal arts and STEM (the actual tech innovation still has to come from somebody and it's not likely to be from a non-STEM lib arts major) ... BUT his idea on the Ameri-corps sounds like a good way to go to put some of the un / under employed to work (rather than stay at home on unemployment / welfare).
His timeline sounds a bit off. Five years is too soon to project that kind of massive unemployment spike. At any rate there will always be a need for skilled and trained professionals. Even if we take Cuban at face value that machine learning will usurp humans in the westernized fully developed world, in the developing world or places that have not made that transition to automatized machines, there will be opportunities.
I think there is a disconnect between Cubans time in school(or his idea of what liberal arts majors are) and the reality of the times.perhaps this was true during the time of gore Vidal, it is no more. The liberal arts majors are less tolerant, more parochial, more dogmatic, become more zealots than ever before.
Exactly. Give me a free thinking engineer or programmer with a good work ethic and zest for creativity over a lazy faux open minded do nothing with no entrepreneurial spirit any day.
Sheesh put your skirt back on people. Its called a figure of speech. Sheesh insert brain
He live in glass bubble... We have seen disconneted peoples but him, he look like the first on the line..
con
Journalism and media monetizes the humanities.
lol no i don't think so. future will just adopt a stronger sub culture for start ups among engineering majors.
Everything Cuban says is wrong. He is like the king of wrong.
Plenty of liberal arts grads with no job or stuck at McDonalds.
My manager at Best Buy has a BS in Physics. Every major has its risks and rewards. Not all STEM degrees are a ticket to riches and wealth my friend
@@karimzakaria9621 Maybe your manager at Best Buy works there until they can land a job in the Physics field.
Liberal Arts Degrees, other than economics= Underemployment/unemployment.
@@slickawesome7807 He's not gonna land a job in the physics field with just a bachelor's...
@@karimzakaria9621 that's because he stopped at a BS degree. Jobs in physics require higher degrees than that.
Wow this guy clearly has no idea what keeps the world working. Not even sure why they published this drivel. I hope no ones takes this guys advice in career choice.
Ignorant, do research
Isn't they're a glut of liberal arts and humanities major already. The pot smokers in college. lol
This didnt age well. 7 years later those jobs are still here
Give it another 2 years lol.
@@Evan_Stark how long u going say that times up
Yeah, who needs roads, bridges, water utilities, electricity etc
If your going to college you should be majoring in something that is marketable and will make you money. If the cost benefit doesn't add up, then clearly the degree your looking at is not worth it.
More liberal arts? Ya, You want fries with that.
Need to ban loans on art degrees
Bye bye Gender Studies and Fine Arts etc.