Based on observation of recent customs, I would suggest nominating for discussion the increasingly popular "advanced degrees," MBA and MBM. (Master of Business Administration and Master of Bunsiness Managment.)

While either field of study could teach useful things, in the recent past they've been largely an "escape" for those who tried to learn something useful but were unable to apply what they learned successfully, so they saw these as "routes into being a boss," where they hoped to be better compensated and "respected."

I've seen a very few who entered those studies because it was what they wanted to do, and had some success. Recently those who tried to escape a prior record of incompetence have shown only that if you can learn to "suck up" to the right people who got there ahead of you, incompetence doesn't matter all that much.

Along the same line, many years ago a local University announced the establishment of a degree course to teach people how to start and run a business, claiming that it was the "first school of its kind." They ran the TV ad announcing the new "School of Enterperneurship" for more than twelve years before anyone at the school noticed the misspelling.

"Shure Teech, tell me somthin' that'll make me a genyus."

John