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Yes I realize this, and if you go back to my post I pondered where we would be if these people had instead pursued liberal arts degrees/education. That’s a key point. </p>
<p>Engineering degrees weren’t needed hundreds of years ago for innovations to occur, as they simply didn’t exist. But if those innovators in our history had instead spent their days reading Ovid or Shakespeare, the world would be an entirely different place (though not necessarily worse).</p>