Whatdya know academia, like everything else in the world, has become a giant vending machine put your money in push the button and you get a degree, put more money in and you get a ho-hum peer-reviewed paper for 29.95 for 24 hours, professors sell. their souls they can get tenure, parents drop hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their kids into Ivy league colleges. Attending in person or taking online classes costs exactly the same. Am I mad? You're damn right I'm mad, I can't figure out to turn my little homebrewed microscope lab into a multi-billion dollar international corporation.