Are you really using this as evidence that College is Bad? There are a lot more homeless dropouts and college-educated people with successful careers. By your logic, having a 300k/year salary is A Bad Thing cause, well, look where it got this guy!

His point was to illustrate that traditional predictors of success, including even prior success, don't guarantee you anything. He's really proud that his kids were able to receive strong traditional educations that led to college degrees and promising stable careers. How is that subversive?

"His point was to illustrate that traditional predictors of success, including even prior success, don't guarantee you anything"

I'm glad we agree on the subversive part of the story. There is a stereotypical middle class mantra always repeated unthinkingly that college is a universal good the purpose of which is to eat cash and excrete a credential that results in a good job and success, automatically, all the time, for all participants. Exactly the same Pavlovian thought conditioning process in go to church = go to heaven and several other peculiar beliefs.

and now he blogs for degreed.com, a startup focused on breaking the University's strangehold on degrees as an indicator of personal educational outcomes and career potential.