By the sound of comments seems like STEM majors didnt even teach you guys how to do research! Any well respected scientest and engineer will attest to the need of the arts and humanities. And how crucial STEM and A/H are together. (Neil dygrass tyson is a huge supporter of the arts!)

Philosophy major here. I agree with Mark Cuban that once we've filled all the technical skills in society, the skills of creative and critical thinking will be more valuable simply because these will be the skills that will be more in demand. I also think it's economically worth it to get a liberal arts degree, because critical thinking is a skill that needs a certain kind of environment to develop: A university. Universities teach students discipline and gives students access to (typically) elite people in society. So, unless you already grew up in a critically educated environment, some people need to go to universities to learn how to master these everyday life skills. Secondly, any student who has sat down to write a standardized test that focuses on critical thinking skills like the SATs, LSATs, or GMATs will know that basic everyday skills in math, reading, and reasoning, are skills a lot of people have, but only a few people master these skills. Universities give students the opportunity to hone and master these basic everyday critical thinking skills.

I don't see engineering jobs go away, but something like data mining or data science might, just be cause of automation. But yes, Cuban is right, creativity is what still separate humans from machines for the foreseeable future. Does that mean students should get art degrees from economic perspective? Probably no.

Yeah less competition for him and me, go for it!!!

He's right. I was totally thinking about this "make-work" concept. I want to create a non-profit company that creates jobs that have a social impact.

Liberal arts majors can be augmented if you supplement a cluster of business or technical courses and/or earn a professional degree. Also, there are other jobs just require a BA. Overall, liberal education gives you a great foundation that other highly technical degrees don't.

what happened to the bolts coming out of his neck?

I know this video is years old, but still... My advice is to be liberal in your education while getting real training in a marketable trade. In other words: Don't get a liberal arts degree. If you can, _do_ get liberal arts education (logic, philosophy, theology, music, etc.) while getting a degree or certificate for an in-demand trade. This way, you can be a more rounded, critically-thinking human being while also employed and, thus, able to put food on your table and pay your bills (including that ridiculous student loan debt if you couldn't---or didn't---avoid it).

Mark Cuban does not realize that anyone can be a free-thinker without a degree.

Man they need WD40 for that chair! So annoying

To anyone reading this, get a degree in a STEM Field: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math !!!

My ability to spit for 10 feet is more useful than a liberal arts degrees.

when "successful" people tell it like it is, the cognitive dissonance on his face

Having a Liberal Arts degree does help cause once everything even tech field becomes oversaturated and becomes automated it ruins the imagination and makes people lazy cause everything will be auomatic calculation. Liberal Arts teaches you how to think, abstractly and outside of the box. Liberal Arts majors shape the world and STEM majors make the world run. There are people who are Liberal Arts majors and they become business managers, program managers etc.

Yeah, who needs roads, bridges, water utilities, electricity etc

This guy just hustles people for venture capital. I would do the opposite of what he says.

I disagree with most of these comments below. He is correct. If you have a good liberal arts education which teaches you how to think, listen and be critical, you have values that are endless. What you make of these values is up to you.

Modern day version of “let them eat cake”.

Soooooooo duuuuuuuuumb!!!!!!!!! I like Cuban too. Now if he had said double major in English and stats, then that's a different story

He knows value of money but he a singular view of investment. Example, he said one return of construction. But in reality construction of infrastructure has a continual return and unforseen return.

Sheesh put your skirt back on people. Its called a figure of speech. Sheesh insert brain

So Cuban will be hiring Liberal Arts graduates?

I think Cuban is absolutely right.

If your going to college you should be majoring in something that is marketable and will make you money. If the cost benefit doesn't add up, then clearly the degree your looking at is not worth it.

This guy got lucky with one big sale and has been spewing crap ever since. People like to think he's correct because he has money.

this guy clearly has child(ren) going to school for liberal arts. just a thought. could be wrong who knows.

His timeline sounds a bit off. Five years is too soon to project that kind of massive unemployment spike. At any rate there will always be a need for skilled and trained professionals. Even if we take Cuban at face value that machine learning will usurp humans in the westernized fully developed world, in the developing world or places that have not made that transition to automatized machines, there will be opportunities.

More liberal arts? Ya, You want fries with that.

His position on liberal arts degrees is absolute nonsense, demand will always be for a balance of liberal arts and STEM (the actual tech innovation still has to come from somebody and it's not likely to be from a non-STEM lib arts major) ... BUT his idea on the Ameri-corps sounds like a good way to go to put some of the un / under employed to work (rather than stay at home on unemployment / welfare).

Cubans conclusion is to the point. Trumpf is a leisure business investor. I believe Trump is clueless in anything else. Trumps ventures are hotel and golf courses.

He live in glass bubble... We have seen disconneted peoples but him, he look like the first on the line..

black female sociologist on deck!

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lol no i don't think so. future will just adopt a stronger sub culture for start ups among engineering majors.

I think there is a disconnect between Cubans time in school(or his idea of what liberal arts majors are) and the reality of the times.perhaps this was true during the time of gore Vidal, it is no more. The liberal arts majors are less tolerant, more parochial, more dogmatic, become more zealots than ever before.

Journalism and media monetizes the humanities.

Need to ban loans on art degrees

Isn't they're a glut of liberal arts and humanities major already. The pot smokers in college. lol

Plenty of liberal arts grads with no job or stuck at McDonalds.

Everything Cuban says is wrong. He is like the king of wrong.

Wow this guy clearly has no idea what keeps the world working. Not even sure why they published this drivel. I hope no ones takes this guys advice in career choice.

This didnt age well. 7 years later those jobs are still here