Businesses would not be terrible if business education is actually tempered with some humanities. In fact, I am strongly of the opinion that every field of study should have some humanities component to them. None of the fields exist in vacuum, we have to have at least, some appreciation of other fields, lest we risk creating silos in the name of organization. And that is precisely happening in this age of hyper-specialization.

Good, an MBA is just a degree in exploitation. I will fight you over this take like a goddamn racoon over the last piece of food in the dumpster.

Everyone should have a strong base in STEM and the humanities. It irks me to no end when STEM majors can't write, communicate, or understand a wider historical context just as it irks me when humanities majors claim to not understand basic algebra or scientific concepts. It's fine to have a preference, but an expert engineer should have a passing familiarity with philosophy and ethics, just as a historian should have a passing familiarity with scientific laws and mathematics.

Then there's business majors who have no familiarity with anything at all. If I had my druthers, "business school" wouldn't even be an option at a university.

MBAs have destroyed the world. We used to have good paying jobs and affordable rent.

The world is powered by a collective STEAM engine:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics.

Arts is such a fundamental component for communicating advancements and inspiring the creativity that fuels further discoveries.

The real problem is believing there's an objective difference between art, science, humanities, etc. It's an artificial division under capitalism between what's directly useful for profit, control, etc. and what's not.

Regardless, yeah fuck business school. That's got no value to anybody.

Stem major checking in for an arts/humanities major to hold hands with

As a STEM graduate, I would much rather hold hands with an econ graduate than a business graduate. Economists can do real good for the world, while MBAs seem to be mostly harmful.

I have worked at several startups where I was like employee number ten, and you can always feel the culture shift the moment they start hiring MBAs.

The ownership class and their mba lackeys have done a real bang up job not only separating the two cultures, but getting them both to think through the mental model of business and profit whenever they're pondering how to practice their profession.

As an econ major with a BS, please don't lump me in with the econ majors who went to business school for a MBA. I like cool math, not venture capitalism cancer.

I have a PhD in research psychology, and worked with researchers in a lot of other disciplines. I have been mansplained about topics in my field (including the topic of my dissertation) by more MBAs than any other field. More often than not they are vastly oversimplifying or just getting things completely wrong. Try telling them that though and it's like talking to a wall.

Fucking finally we're talking sense.

We gotta have an economy to function as a society but the rub of economics in the West is that if it acknowledged why the economy functions the way it does, it would be peeling the facade off our supposedly democratic system of governance and folks would start taking a much keener interest in why wealth is getting so concentrated. We can't have that, so instead we get increasingly elaborate versions of economic Lamarckism and the field's Darwins are ostracized as cranks.

I remember joking to my philosophy teacher that my first choice for a major was business but...

Yeah lol fuck those entitled popped collar frat shitheads that were born into wealth and have zero compassion, oh and did I mention their racism