[nradov]

Higher education in subjects with poor employment prospects is a luxury good. If wealthy people want to pay out of their own pockets to study those subjects then go ahead, but as a taxpayer I resent being forced to subsidize students who just want to goof around and pontificate for 4 years. Where is the return on my investment?

To be clear, I am not taking an extremist position here. There is value in having an educated populace and students should have some coursework in a broad range of liberal arts subjects. But for college majors we have to be more pragmatic at both an individual and social policy level.