[codexon]

I thought this comment there summed up the entire article succinctly.

A contrarian comment based on the interestingly paradoxical fact that our sub-20K PhD found his path to happiness (if, indeed, that's what heading the American Enterprise Institute represents for him) by recognizing he might best pursue such a goal by becoming a tenured professor at a $45K per BA year institution. I remain unimpressed by today's tutorial

[randallsquared]

So, we can sum up that comment as "It's not what you learn, it's how much it cost for your degree that matters in life"?

[codexon]

The way I took it is that his degree was valuable to him because he participated in the overpriced college market, the very thing he is criticizing.