Precisely the sort of thing that goes on all the time between "career academics" who spend their entire lives in the "publish or perish" incestuous hellhole that is academia.
Most of them have never held a productive job "out in the real world", and have developed a monstrously inflated sense of self-importance -- to mask a basically worthless existence.
IMHO, a valid 'degree path' should consist of the following:
The only problem is that academia would probably get even worse -- because truly worthwhile people who return to school after working at a productive job are frequently disgusted by what they find when they return to academia.
The world would have far fewer PhDs -- but we would have more Masters and PhDs that I'd be willing to hire!
ok, i am going to school for pharmacy right now, its a 6 yr program, so should i skip a couple years before grad school?