Is this some strange attempt to align this article with the “college education isn’t necessary” mantra? Like college education isn’t necessary as long as you h

Is this some strange attempt to align this article with the “college education isn’t necessary” mantra? Like college education isn’t necessary as long as you have college professors for parents? The absurdist continuation is something like: “I’d like to think if I was motivated enough I could retroactively convert my parents from city bus drivers to tenured professors in a lucrative field, then I wouldn’t need a college education”?