It took me approximately sixty seconds on Google to bring up a page from the Census Bureau, breaking down income according to education level: http://www.censu

It took me approximately sixty seconds on Google to bring up a page from the Census Bureau, breaking down income according to education level: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/perinc/new03_001.htm http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/perinc/new03... The median earnings of an American over 25 with less than a 9th-grade education is $18,180. For a high-school diploma or GED, it’s $27,963. For a bachelor’s degree (“for a lot of them, an overpriced status marker and little else”, says Salam), it’s $48,097. In the sample from this survey, the folks with less than a 9th-grade education represented about 5% of the total; does Salam really have any evidence that 5% of the US adult population lives cheerfully off subsistance agriculture and cryptocash?