Your point of view honestly makes me sad. It&#x27;s the kind of industry-centric thinking that is killing culture.<p>Under this premise, investing in the arts is a waste of money, when you could invest in UX studies. Investing in the humanities is a waste of money, when you could invest in data analysis. Hell, why even have academia at all? Wouldn&#x27;t it be better if education was managed and provided directly by the industry?<p>This fetish for optimisation only ends up hurting the sense of humanity in all of us. Not everything has to be done with the purpose of being disruptive, or in a frenzy for efficiency. Some people are just goddamn curious about bees and will study honey bees (as useless as it may sound) because understanding nature is a goddamn delight in its own right, even if it doesn&#x27;t yield the next billion-dollar idea.<p>That innate delight and curiosity is where science is born. Let&#x27;s appreciate that. It applies to STEM too. Maybe some academics don&#x27;t care about your problems or in fact solving any problems at all, and decided to be in academia not for the &quot;potentially-groundbreaking research&quot; but just the thrill of finding new stuff and uncovering the beauty in the universe, don&#x27;t you think?