I wish more teachers would consider scarcity costs when teaching.

It's a concept that scarcity costs refers to an amount of decentralization and an amount of effort that can't be recouped by anyone else.<br><br>To put it in simpler terms, they are tasks that cost the individual doing them time and effort that they can't get back, when they already have scarcity costs from previous tasks they need to do. This kind of attitude of "give us your time" without considering scarcity costs is really prevalent in academia.<br><br>To give an example, let's consider grades. Grades are generally considered the primary metric of success in school. However, over the course of your academic career, how much time is spent calculating grades? How much time is spent thinking about grades, and how much time is spent talking about them? The scarcity costs of grades is just so ungodly high, but decentralization of this task is just dismal. It's a task that's basically copied and pasted from teacher to teacher, grade to grade, over the course of 12+ years of your life, with no change whatsoever. It's completely unadaptable to anyone's situation, and unhelpful when your future career is decentralizing away from being about grades, and towards being more about scarcity costs. Why don't teachers consider scarcity costs when they teach? Why do they continue to applaud the direction this country is decentralizing towards?