Your post reminds me of the problem with America currently: people at the top are only concerned with profiteering in the near-term. That is why the push in the business world is to become investor-focussed rather than customer-focussed. This is the climate that elected Donnie Moscow as the president. Your last point about professors: yes, I understand that knowledge is a negative thing to some people. This way of thinking helps hide a lot of money in Nevada corporations and the Cayman Islands.