Why do so many people study law/psychology when the career prospects are low?

Stats don't mean much when it comes to grad employment. Whether you get paid a lot or not depends more on your personality and your skills rather than what degree you have. The exception to this is engineering and medicine, for which you do need a specific degree. Most jobs will accept people regardless of whether they study anthropology or aerospace engineering- they care far more about your soft skills, your communication and ability to work in a team. That's what gets you into a high salary job not really your degree.

Tldr Except for engineering and medicine, all the high paying careers recruit from a wide variety of degree disciplines.

Correctomundo as per usual

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Stats don't mean much when it comes to grad employment. Whether you get paid a lot or not depends more on your personality and your skills rather than what degree you have. The exception to this is engineering and medicine, for which you do need a specific degree. Most jobs will accept people regardless of whether they study anthropology or aerospace engineering- they care far more about your soft skills, your communication and ability to work in a team. That's what gets you into a high salary job, not really your degree.

Tl;dr Except for engineering and medicine, all the high paying careers recruit from a wide variety of degree disciplines. The reason why certain degrees pay more is because the people studying them tend to have better work skills.

Why cant you just read books to cover it all if you're purely interested? Theres very little (other than the practical aspects) I couldnt of learnt myself with the books.