"Worthless degrees?" Oh really!

If that be the case, then i guess, the people who have studied early music, and the instruments used some 800 years back, should have majored in corporate accounting, or some other (yawn) $ubject; honing their skills on even nastier ways to hike up (postage-stamp) lot rents, displacing trailer park residents - who will likely end up living in their (not too reliable) cars. 

Perhaps, the twenty (give or take) members of Jordi Savall's orchestra, or the Clemencic Consort's fifteen-some members, and the two men who started Sequentia, or the six-some members of Capilla Antiqua de Chinchilla...

What of the twenty-some students of the Gonville & Gaius Choir?  Uhm, one has to study diligently the language to sing those songs.  Perhaps, some of the students are majoring in biology or engineering.  Oh we definitely need more people to design six-ounce boxes of chocolates to trick consumers into thinking they are buying close to a pound - and besides, we all need MORE plastic.  Not enough sea creatures are suffocating :/  But anyway...

How many other people - who may or may not play instruments or sing the songs in the languages of the period - ya know, people who majored in the arts?  Eight hundred years is a long time.  Alot of documents had been lost.  So, in composing the music takes serious brain-work - unlike certain other recent forms of what-passes-for "music."  (But won't go there, it's Christmas).

The people who rant the most about the "worthless degrees" are ... yep, you guessed it!  Red-pills.  i guess they haven't noticed how devolved classical music, and art has become. But what to expect from dudes who sit in their jimmy-jams for days on end...:/ And no.  Am no expert either.  All's i know is, there's a big, BIG difference between for-real classical and pop culture.  Same, so goes with the hymns in the church - though yeah, there's a few modern ones which sing well.  The classical music (ya know, Bach, Wagner, and the rest) is better, in every way.  As for hymns, Hill Song can pound sand.

Is what it is.