Starbucks employs orders of magnitude more philosophers than any AI labs.

If pay, hours, benefits, and type of work mean nothing to you, then maybe this is an apt point.

If service to others and to society mean anything to you, working in Starbucks or any fast food job will teach you more about humanity and human society than most college grads learn from a humanities degree.

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OtherShrezzing 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It’s difficult to articulate the tedium and monotony of a Starbucks gig. There’s so little intellectual stimulation available in that setting. If you managed to learn more from your fast food than your humanities degree, then I think that’s on you for not paying attention at college (perhaps because you were exhausted from your job?).

	▲	ElProlactin 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> If you managed to learn more from your fast food than your humanities degree... It's not about learning "more". It's that earning a degree is an academic undertaking whereas working at a coffee shop is "real life". There is no need to treat one as more or less valuable/useful than the other. They're just different kinds of human experiences. Learning is possible from both.

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quixoticaxolotl 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Helping a mega-corporation make an extra buck is not "service to society".

If you meant doing a service job at a small business, where you can have real ownership over how it treats its customers, I would agree with you.

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pohl 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

But will it help those baristas pay off the student loans that paid for their philosophy degrees?

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fearmerchant 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ok, you got me. It took me a minute.

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airstrike an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

and famously doesn't require a degree