How worthless is Philosophy?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Who I'm mostly referring to here are those Twitter or Facebook users with "Philosopher" in their bio, usually their only way of expressing ideas is not to write a book or even just make a speech, but to post on these websites. I can't name any off the top-of-my-head, but they're usually White, millennial, Atheistic or Agnostic, and left-leaning. This is not to say there are NO good modern philosophers, however the title is muddled by Twitter users.

Oh, I see what you mean. I was thinking of published, professional philosophers. There are some pretty good ones of those.

But if you're including us amateurs, and Reddit and Twitter and places like that -- then, absolutely. Some of what goes on is shocking. 

Probably you're heard of Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap." But he was writing before the Internet. By now I think we've got the number up to about 99.

An earlier version appears in Kipling’s ‘The Light That Failed’, and isn’t quite so cynical:

‘Four-fifth’s of everybody’s work must be bad. But the remnant is worth the trouble for its own sake.’

Boru