One thing that really annoys me about universities is being forced to take random classes under the dubious banner of being well rounded. The incentives for the

One thing that really annoys me about universities is being forced to take random classes under the dubious banner of being well rounded. The incentives for the university are to make us spend more time and money on them. So of course, they want us to waste time in arbitrary forced requirements. My observation is that people are not actually well-rounded just because they went to a university. And I don’t think they’re even studying the fields that we need as a society. There are too many random fields that just seem like activism rather than something rigorous. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing those, and the government needs to be much smarter about managing the bad incentives for administration.