Academia has long had “publish or perish” as a requirement prior to getting tenure. After tenure, academics usually do nothing useful and don’t actually teach - often they let/make their aides teach their classes.
I have no problem with eliminating tenure and implementing ‘teaching or termination’ for those that are supposed to teach but can’t (because they suck at it) or don’t (because they are lazy.)
This has most definitely reached the tipping point.
And they get grants to publish a lot of stuff that's causing our nation to "perish."
Studies on the environment, education, healthcare - you name it, these studies are being pumped out of these liberal hot houses called higher education (studies published in house or in publications like "Science," where they're "peer reviewed" by like minded ideologues), while opposite opinions are blocked.
People are told that there is consensus among scientists and that if it comes out of a university it's sacrosanct - if you object, question or in anyway disagree you're label as anti-[fill in the blank] and will be shamed and shunned.
Science has become dangerously politicized.