Yes, she did the right thing by coming to youtube and and becoming self employed. The academia is full of crooks in higher education even here in India.

Leaving at side that she didn't get the job because she is a woman, I agree on most other parts that she discusses in the video. Here, if you wanna do PhD. which I am pursuing myself currently, doesn't even require you to write any synopsis or thesis, but you can simply but it and the money goes to the guide professor.

But, overall it's sad but true with her, except that she was just overreacting about academia being so 'overhead'.