I see things a bit differently, I feel that we don't have a god given right to study whatever the hell we want and require other people to pay for it. I unders

I see things a bit differently, I feel that we don't have a god given right to study whatever the hell we want and require other people to pay for it. I understand that some people have no interest in being productive members of society, and I don't own them; they own themselves and can make their own decisions and choices about their lives. I'm happy that there is art in the world, and I support artists by buying art, and I think it is a shame that art isn't valued by society enough to provide a really outstanding living for all but a select handful of artists. However, that's the world we live in. I like to read science fiction novels occasionally. Should I expect others to pay me to do that? Of course not, I consider that my own choice and I limit how much I do of that to what I can afford to pay for out of my own resources. Artists and art historians don't have a right to make me work to support them simply because the choices they make don't result in the life or education that they want. If they believe they can write a book or produce a piece of music that I will purchase more power to them. However, people (and universities) shouldn't go around saying "follow your bliss" or "study whatever looks like fun" and mislead them about where that course of action will end up. A mathematician says "How do I prove that?", a scientist says "How do I investigate that?", a businessman says "How do I produce that?" and an art history major says "Do you want fries with that?".