ControversialOpinion:PhilosophyMajorsAreTheSmartest

I went to school almost 2 decades ago at a tier vibranium school for philosophy (pretty much only Oxford and Oxford alone), and the people in my colleges and course are now literally individuals carving away new frontiers in politics, ethics, economics, physics and medicine for human civilization, while I'm just a PE MF partner making 34mm annually, which doesn't fill that gap in my heart.

Philosophy majors are literally our modern day equivalents of Caesar, Alexander, Bonaparte, Tzu and the usual culprits that have launched human civilization leaps and bounds beyond any mere scientist, doctor or lawyer.

Pretty much every relevant person (G7 heads of state, c suite execs, astrophysicists, rocket scientists, etc) you have ever heard of were with me at Oxford.

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