"we did some bad things

we designed a meritocracy around
the skills we ourselves
possess and rigged the game so we
succeeded and everybody else failed

by age 12 American children of
affluent parents are four grade levels
above everybody else

by University the rich kids are 77 times more likely
to go to university or to ivy league
university than kids from poor schools

in adulthood 54% of the people at Elite
workplaces went to the same 34 Elite
colleges

so we ended up creating a cast
system

people with high school degrees
die nine years sooner than people with
college degrees

people with high school degrees
are five times more likely to
have kids out of wedlock

people with high school degrees are 2.4 times more
likely to say they have no friends

so we created a cast system even though we
pretend to be egalitarian

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart)

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