[inglor_cz]

That's actually pretty bad. The rest of the world is very willing to spend money on American aerospace products and services.

Is it willing to buy gender theory from you for similar amounts of money? If not, the production of specialized majors should not be 1:1.

[amanaplanacanal]

Even in our "productivity at any cost" society, sometimes people still study things that they find interesting. That's probably a good thing, in the long run.

[inglor_cz]

Scale matters, and there are aftereffects on the society as a whole.

Historically, societies which produced a lot of ideologically minded professionals (such as clergy), tended towards implementing that ideology top-down. I am on board with Turchin's theory of elite overproduction here, and gender studies is modern equivalent of catechism.

To choose a less ideological example: personally, I love Egyptology, but I would be a strict opponent of producing as many Egyptologists as aerospace engineers. Chances are that the superfluous graduates would push for an Egyptocentric department in every public institution and half of private ones.

[amanaplanacanal]

There are three times as many religion and philosophy majors as ethnic and gender studies majors. If you are worried about ideologically minded professionals, there are bigger fish to fry.

[inglor_cz]

Oh, sure, I would fry them all together.

[BigTTYGothGF]

> Chances are that the superfluous graduates would push for an Egyptocentric department in every public institution and half of private ones.

Better that than, say, the business school.

[user_of_the_wek]

Do you think its zero sum? We could just put all the gender studies students into engineering and expect them to thrive there?