Interesting conversation with Alain de Botton about the confusion of what art degrees actually are. A vocational course that could be achieved at weekends and universities are giving the idea that there is jobs awaiting them. Their approach is something like advertising or a science when it is actually far from. He goes on to say do not study Art nor Philosophy. Also surveys for happiness understanding what people want if not money. Tax payers money is being used to see how happy people are (showing Northern Ireland as happiest). The questions are not a individual government funded survey but questions being added to an already existing survey. Botton says "they are looking to why people may leave the city from highly paid jobs to smaller modest living, if people are no longer driven by money what is it they want"
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