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This UCSD math proficiency scandal reminds me of the great financial crisis in 2008. There was an assumption then, that bundled mortgages are nearly risk-free investments. This led to banks being incentivized to underwrite more mortgages, so they started handing out "NINJA" loans (No Income, No Job / Assets). This radical shift in the distribution of who got loans caused the initial assumption to break. It's similar here: there's a base assumption that a UC diploma leads to better salaries, so the more we give to lower-income folks, we lift more young people out of poverty and that's a good thing. But if you start handing these diplomas out to larger numbers of students who can't do elementary school math, employers will notice and the base assumption will break.