Is it just me or does this article have a pretentious tone to it? Also if you follow the line of thinking in the last paragraph to it's logical conclusion then a lot of people were "screwed" out of their millions of dollars.
I felt the same way, but I interpreted it as the writer's subtle mockery of his earlier "hotshot" self. Towards the end he notes that he made no money off the deal, and that he deserved to make none.