The melodeath metal band Insomnium didn't act in the Covid pandemy, because their guitarrist was working in the creation of vaccines.

I find fault in the reasoning, it's probably the bussiness majors that profited the most from any band ever by pocketing half of whatever money they made.

Throw marketing and HR majors in there with business majors as the triumvirate of just literally evil and useless people, and I'm on board.

I say this as a person with an Econ degree, and another Poli Sci degree, that I got simultaneously.

Bach Sci, Bach Arts, respectively.

Not quite as 'artistic' as something like music or visual artistry of some kind, but I can say that a.BA in Poli Sci involves a lot of learning how to be the... persuasive kind of a creative writer.

So yeah, I'm kind of a hybrid multi-class build, so just like when you do that in DnD, 90% of people are somewhere between annoyed by or confused by this, all the way up to just outright hating you for 'being a try-hard' or 'having both a broad and deep skillset, and significant general understanding of relevant context in many areas'.

Ok lol, snark aside...

We Econ people are not all evil, in fact most of us fucking despise business majors, as business is what you switch your Econ major to if you're too stupid to actually understand advanced math, modelling, statistical analysis, as well as actual long term business strategy and non myopic market analysis... as well as usually at least some coding proficiency in something like R or at least Python libs geared toward data crunching.

But somehow these idiot assholes end up being our bosses and we usually end up being their subordinate data analysts of some kind, basically because they master the arcane power of corpospeak, aka, professional gaslighting.

Likewise, accountants, actuaries?

Those are actual real degrees, you have to memorize an utterly astounding amount of essentially arbitrary laws and regulations, and if you go full actuary, some of the most complex statistics on earth, in some cases literally more complex and mind bending than what many theoretical physicists have to learn.

Anyway, most data oriented nerds are at least mildly autistic and realize they are generally not so good with people skills, nor the visually artistic kind of creativity... but we are generally self-aware of this, and realize that other people with other kinds of intelligences are needed if we want our data and analysis to actually be listened to.

Finally: HR and Marketing majors are all narcissistic sociopaths who are also too stupid to complete their psychology degrees, which they really only ever pursued to become more skilled sociopaths.

... Uh there, oops, I may have just written at least part of OP's essay.

EDIT: Ok, apparently this may be worth clarifying due to the presence of some ChatGPT diarrhea in this thread, but uh, the above words were all produced spontaneously by an all natural, organic, genuine human being, in an astoundingly more energy efficient and non exploitative manner, that didn't require the violation of the privacy, consent, and also basically IP rights of every human that has ever existed.

There's been a push in higher education and professional markets for a STEAM education paradigm over STEM. Especially when you consider that there's a ton of crossover between tradition STEM education and arts in modern day professionals (User Experience relies on all 5 domains for delivering truly great UX for example).

In Canada we call it STEAM now. Because where the hell do you think design comes from?

That's why we have STEAM now :)

Damn, they got to him before he could get it out.
Curse you, lizard overlords!

I fully agree. But once those who should be business majors enter a field everything about it gets worse.

I've been waiting 12 years for this fuggin essay

IDK, business people tend to make a LOT of money from successful artists, so if anything, they should encourage this.

I went to a London university. Most the departments were essentially as diverse as the population, but business undergrads were 80% black British, and everyone knows they hate queen. Is this the conspiracy we've been warned about?

(This is very clearly a joke I hope and I have utter respect for everyone.)

Splash in finance and you get Offspring

So, how can society overcome the rift?