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I think we'll actually see more of a divide as those who are motivated to study on their own go through online programs like OCW and use that knowledge to do impressive things in lieu of credentialing themselves (though they may also leverage the impressive things to get credentials).

The hard part will be that the poorer folks won't have the same luxury of free time to study like this.

So in the end I'm not sure that we'll really escape from Matthew's Law ("the rich get richer and the poor get poorer").