shouldn't it be the university administration's job to find funding and allocate it? sure nobody can know the future, but people in positions of power should at

shouldn't it be the university administration's job to find funding and allocate it? sure nobody can know the future, but people in positions of power should at least understand the potential results and implications of the projects they decide to terminate or support. researchers themselves shouldn't have to waste time essentially paying rent to a parasitic bureaucracy.