And this is how we get engineers that think "I don't need to understand economics or history or politics or society or my place in it, I'll just let the people

And this is how we get engineers that think "I don't need to understand economics or history or politics or society or my place in it, I'll just let the people running the company I work for worry about all that so I can focus on important things like optimizing this endpoint". I would prefer a hiring process that filters out that attitude. > humanities education makes you a better-rounded person somehow That's literally what university is for. It sounds like what you wanted was a trade school, and there's nothing wrong with wanting that, but there is still a reason why a university education is valued by some people.