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<p>Then by that same logic, plenty of other majors surely pay even less than American Studies does. </p>
<p>And besides, I rather doubt that we should count those who are seeking employment as having earned literally $0. After all, if nothing else, they still have a degree from Berkeley, which ought to mean that they are better off than the vast majority of people in the country who either never graduated from college at all, or if they did, graduated with an unmarketable liberal arts degree from a no-name school. {Now if you want to argue the opposite: that a Berkeley degree - even in American Studies - is actually worse than having no degree at all or having an unmarketable liberal arts degree from a no-name school, I welcome you to try.} Yet those people presumably usually obtain jobs - not particularly desirable ones to be sure, but jobs nonetheless. Surely the Berkeley American Studies graduate could obtain the same jobs that those people are obtaining. </p>
<p>{Now, again, if you want to argue that not only those American Studies students, but the vast majority of liberal arts students across the country, should not even be going to college at all, I welcome you to do so, and in fact, I’ve made that very same point myself on other threads. But that is a fundamentally different topic than the one at hand.}</p>