AI时代，哲学系的人为什么不怕找不到工作？

Chinese philosophy graduates have become minor celebrities: one sells grilled sausages with a philosophy question attached, another won a stand-up comedy championship. Dr Xiaoyun Peng argues these are not signs of underemployment but of a trained willingness to ask what work is for. She draws on David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs to explain why philosophy students are quick to doubt the value of respectable-looking work, and cites Georgetown CEW data showing philosophy majors' median pay rising from roughly $39,000 early career to $81,000 mid-career, with HESA figures putting UK philosophy graduates ahead of history and English five years out. Her husband, Dr Yan, left a philosophy doctorate for primary school teaching and became a pioneer of philosophy for children in China. The argument is that philosophy produces people who create work rather than depend on it.