College Admissions Cheating Racket

[Benton]

(03-13-2019, 12:33 PM)Dill Wrote: That "more handed" makes quite a bit of difference, if it shuts off others' opportunities and funds class control of the nation's politics and wealth.

Equal access to a strip mall doesn't cancel the expanding privilege which accompanies our widening wealth gap.

Agreed. If it does.

But, in fairness, it's not like most of the Ivy League schools weren't already shuttering the poor.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/yale-university

Using Yale as an example, the bottom 20% of income earners make up 2% of their population, while the top 20% of earners make up nearly 3-out-of-4 students. 

The rich have access to things the poor don't. That's not a huge problem. In terms of schools like Yale, it's not a big deal, as it really doesn't make you a better lawyer, doctor, whatever if you came from one of those schools. It just means you most likely had your future handed to you.

The problem is the greater access of wealth to governance, which is a different issue. A lot of the issues we have are because people are dumb enough to think rich people are better leaders just because they're rich. Which is why an income bracket with 5% of the people makes decisions that impact the other 95% of the people.