I do have a liberal arts degree, in fact I went with a double major: because nobody hires because of your minor. True, I did grew up in a college town, and the university was really designed for the grad students than the undergrad student body. Even with thousands of university students, they do have a sense of making fun of themselves. I recall a T-shirt that was selling at one of the major stores for university students. It was very simple and it said: "I have a Liberal Arts degree, do you want fries with that order?"
If you have a PhD in say History, there is employment for such a degree. You can be teaching history to university or college students. You can write books dealing with history that may sell a few thousands copies, and hope it gets a award so it can be reprinted for decades to come. On the other hand, if you get a undergrad degree in history: I never know a employer needing to know right this day to make a business deal about the Battle of Hastings.
On the other hand, having a liberal arts degree at the undergrad level, is a positive for society. Society and culture can write newspapers articles, express values of abstract thoughts in art and in movies. Debate complex current affairs, and express the values with political topics. One positive of liberal arts degrees, it makes democracies stable to prevent the culture to have radical shifts without it being deeply debated over years and decades.
On the other hand, America does allow foreign students to come to America. If they do come from a authoritarian country, the degrees they go after are technical degrees at the grad level. Well, why would a authoritarian government want to send a student to a foreign country like America, gets a liberal arts degree in history: and ends up writing a book of history about their own country? A authoritarian government may have to ban their books, arrest the author, and place the author in prison. And if you sent this student to America, his fellow classmates would be interested to find out he or she is in prison for writing a book. Since you sent him to America or some other foreign country to get his or her degree, and you have that person in prison because of their education: you turned that person into s political prisoner.
Yes I have a liberal arts degree, and for a number of former students they really do not use their degree for the direct purpose of the degree. But I would rather have a number of people with a liberal arts degrees and live in a stable democracy than have advanced degrees in technical degrees: and live in a authoritarian government.