Around here any degree can be a pre-med if the person plans to go to med school. So the guy who gets a chemistry degree and wants to go to med school is just fine, but the guy who gets a chemistry degree and wants to be a lab technician is a total moron? What if the first guy doesn’t get into med school on the first try? A huge percentage of pre-meds actually never get into med school and end up in other jobs - are they all morons too?
And no need for artists? You have a weird idea of what is ‘useless’. Do you not realize how much of what you consume (TV, movies, video games, nice restaurant food, etc.) is produced by trained artists? And yet you think nobody should even attempt to do that stuff?
I’m assuming that’s not true for your roommate and husband though.
So why don’t these people have money coming out their ears, seeing as they made the correct decision by training in a trade?