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There is tremendous anger with this being the first time in their privileged lives that they have not been given everything that they ask. It is the first time in their sheltered, privileged lives that they face cuts like other walks of life.

I recalled having a conversation with some of these same people in 2010-2012 or so about the adverse impacts that Obamacare was going to have on the quality of healthcare, the cost of healthcare to the gen pop (who don’t have govt funded universities paying for the best healthcare coverage), and the adverse impact it would have on doctors in that if you don’t make something worthwhile, you won’t get as many top candidates caring for people.

To all of these complex issues, the overly simplistic, and divisive rote response they gave was “doctors make too much money”.
I pointed out that I had already made my way, but I feared for future care. They smugly dismissed the idea, and even suggested that they had seen doctors in eastern Europe driving cabs, and that perhaps that would happen here also and that it was inevitable. We carried on to other topics.

Now, the worm has turned, and my goodness is their viewpoint different!
They whined at every opportunity about how terrible it is, and I couldn’t help but think “university PhD’s make too much money” with a smirk. I didn’t say it because I am not as mean or socially inept as they are, but I found it extremely ironic.

I am sad for them, but there clearly needs to be a vast academic culling of the useless.
At the same time, there will be loss of valuable research to society at the same time in the process which cannot be so precise on the scale needed.
Academia failed to streamline themselves miserably - really, they failed to do almost anything because they fid not live in real life conditions.
Perhaps some will find cabs to drive. Sad really. But really ironic. All things come around. A good thing to remember.