I disagree.

Is money the only motivation? A ton of people blog for the attention, to feel smart, SEO for future endeavors etc. Forums, blogs, and blog comments are full of people tossing out trollish or evocative statements for all sorts of motivations. This post exists for the same reason that any trollish forum post exists.

We are both in the realm of speculation about the author's motives here. I don't like this particular essay either, in fact I think it's horrible.

However, my troll detector is silent on this one. I agree with pg that the author isn't deliberately dishonest.