@adapalmer
Folks who criticise humanities as impractical and impecunious majors, never mention that 90% of the people who run the US and its states are attorneys.
Virtually all these people were humanities majors and most have become powerful and wealthy.
Is slamming humanities really just another attempt to limit the number of people who achieve power and wealth?
People who are STEM majors often achieve Upper Middle Class levels, but few become wealthy or powerful. In fact, I know several engineers who bemoaned the time they spent in engineering and some switched to real estate or law to make the real money.
NB: I am a STEM graduate, phd, and technical person who loves the humanities.