There really isn’t a lot of value to universities other than the quality of prof

There really isn’t a lot of value to universities other than the quality of professor that they can afford to hire, and the fact that there are very few really good professors working at any given time in any field.

My expectation (and I think peterson and others have said this) is that the trend will obviously be solving the problem of certification, and the formation of digital universities so that professors can teach very large classes, use a cadre of graduates to grade the work, and profit from those classes, is the future. And I suspect a much higher quality of education in that future principally because we have access to the best.

And can you imagine the earnings from 50K students per year instead of 50 or 100?

Top professors will earn absurd returns.