> Companies must have a strong reason, hopefully with some data to back it up
This isn't how companies or indeed people work. Most decisions are made emotionally while trying to find data to back up what one already believes. This is especially true when we have bought into the idea of an army of professional managers who are neither any good at the actual work nor management not because this is a useful social organization but because it provides a useful justification to reinforce the existing stratification of society.
We bless folks who prove they have enough money to earn a potentially useless degree with a position in the social hierarchy that befits them.
This isn't how companies or indeed people work. Most decisions are made emotionally while trying to find data to back up what one already believes. This is especially true when we have bought into the idea of an army of professional managers who are neither any good at the actual work nor management not because this is a useful social organization but because it provides a useful justification to reinforce the existing stratification of society.
We bless folks who prove they have enough money to earn a potentially useless degree with a position in the social hierarchy that befits them.