This isn’t surprising. It’s hard to find an honest job as a philosopher.
Newsweek reports:
Almost 80 Percent of Philosophy Majors Favor Socialism, Poll Findsverall, socialism isn’t winning over the majority of college students. When broken down by major, though, its popularity doubled with philosophy students.President Donald Trump emphatically declared during his State of the Union address that America would never be a socialist country. Trump used the sentiment to target his 2020 presidential election opponents, but Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, is gaining momentum among college students.From April to July, a poll found Sanders had a five percent increase in college supporters, putting him right behind Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. While Sanders is coming out as a 2020 frontrunner, a recent poll by College Pulse, a survey and data analytics company, found socialism isn’t favored by the overall majority.Only 39 percent of the 10,590 undergraduates polled had a favorable view of socialism, and the same percentage responded that they had an unfavorable view. When respondents were broken out by major views of capitalism shifted considerably.Philosophy majors were most likely to view socialism positively, with 78 percent of those polled saying they had at least a somewhat favorable view of it. Anthropology majors were a close second at 64 percent, followed by English majors at 58 percent and international relations, sociology and music majors all at 57 percent.
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