"As I’ve noted before, tenured academics has worked a great scam. They’ve managed to monetize peoples’ affection for regional football teams, and their desire for a work credential, and then somehow diverted that money into paying academics to work on whatever they want, for the rest of their lives, without any oversight by the football fans or the employers. While I’m sensitive to the complaints of conservative critics, I think that by and large, it’s a very good thing. But it’s not a viable business model in cyberspace."