I had to. I just couldn’t help it. LOL. But you deserved it anyway … dropping the politics in there.
Quick story: an old classmate of mine was rich. His dad, who was worth conservatively 150M 30 years ago, had “pioneered” an area of law in a certain region of the country. So convinced he was of his privilege (having recommendations from a sitting SCOTUS Chief Justice in addition to the biggest entertainer of the day will do that for you) that his law school applications totaled 4 schools, iirc: Harvard, Yale … Georgetown was his safety. He had good scores, he had great grades, but I guess they felt he had too much privilege; that he wasn’t THAT exceptional. He wasn’t accepted. The real ELITES can be that choosy.
His dad pulled him from school in the late spring - he never came back - and he began law school at a very good regional school that fall without ever applying.
The “value” provided by these universities is more extreme than ever, a point hammered home multiple times by
@OriginalGatorHater over the last few months. The result for today’s graduates is high-paying career path or demand economy also known as the servant economy: Uber, etc.
Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses.
www.theatlantic.com
How Boomers broke America
time.com
“The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.”
The gilded future of the top 10 percent—and the end of opportunity for everyone else
www.theatlantic.com