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A degree that taught activism instead of a trade is not a labor-market asset. Employers hire people who can write, calculate, show up, and solve a problem that is not a seminar prompt. Campuses that spent four years ranking students by ideology produced graduates fluent in slogans and thin on output. The job market noticed.Companies that still play along with the same ideology inside their own HR offices then wonder why the pipeline is full of people who treat the workplace as a continuation of the quad. Customers do not pay for that. They pay for a product. When the hire costs more in politics than they return in work, the opening goes unfilled or goes overseas.American students were sold a product—prestige plus guaranteed employment—and received a worldview that makes them harder to employ. The fix is not another DEI office. It is schools that teach skills, firms that hire for competence, and parents who stop writing tuition checks for a four-year conversion course. The unemployment is not a mystery. It is the bill.