Surely if companies all dropped their marketing budgets to 0, they will increase the profits enormously and provide way more value to their customers! They dont understand anything!!
"But that's the last 2 generations did things, I can't possibly imagine any other way for life to work"
We don't talk about providing value in academia, I assume they don't talk about providing value in philanthropic organizations or political movements. Whenever I hear the term it essentially means "to make money".
I appreciate that this is my personal interpretation of this though
I am not surprised. The requirement to provide value in academia would go very much against getting any funding for it.