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Why bother with a CS degree if you've already written software successfully and cashed out?

Regarding philosophy: in the UK, graduates of the "Politics, Philosophy and Economics" course at Oxford are pretty much running the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11136511

For whatever it's worth, I got more out of my graduate level logic sequence about logic and the deep grounding computability theory than I did from any of my CS classes as an undergraduate (philosophy was one of my majors – CS was a minor)

Personally, I think this kid will be fine majoring in Philosophy because, well, he has other skills to carry him through =) (I still wouldn't go back and change my education one bit)

Even if he's only a little rich as some say he is, a bit of money could put together a ragtag team of outsourcers. Anything's possible I guess. 16 year old dev managing some extra help? Why not?