I'd be interested to learn more about the "larger, societal issues" that are bothering Christopher. Does he think it's wrong that someone with a Masters' should have to take an entry level position at all? Does he think it's wrong that it should take a Masters' to get into those particular organisations? Does he think that this is an indication of how a Masters' has been dumbed down? I'm not trying to pick a fight, it's just that he writes as if those issues are self-evident, but i think it would benefit the conversation more if he unpicked them a bit, because we can't always assume that other readers see things from the same perspective.

As an aside, I received an invitation to a online conference called Positive Deviance that might be of interest to Mark and others like him.