You're not wrong in some ways. In my industry they gave like $50M to a small group of university researchers to come up with some truly useless research. Very s

You're not wrong in some ways. In my industry they gave like $50M to a small group of university researchers to come up with some truly useless research. Very smart people, but a huge waste and some of the projects cost millions to essentially do what someone in industry could do in a week, but wouldn't because there's no point. I imagine if you multiply that by 1000, you could get an accurate depiction of the university jobs program.