Where will the rich kids go? If the real product they're selling, is hanging out with rich kids, perhaps for the hope of future opportunities, spouses, whatever, then sending them all to state-U or whatever will just make the new "cool brand" the state-U.
It reads like advice to improve bars and restaurants. Now, the best most profitable bars and restaurants are the ones doing (fill in the blank) the best. To really gullible people, if every bar and restaurant on the planet did (fill in the blank) as well as (cool place) then every bar and restaurant would be as busy and successful as (cool place)... all of them at the same time, LOL. Obviously if air conditioning or electric lights or indoor plumbing were ubiquitous then a new selection criteria would spring up and the best places would have a different mythology about why they're the best and the rest will remain inferior.
Its an intentional confusion of macro and micro policy.
On a micro scale yes its very easy to fine tune some random poor kid to get into the cool kids-only club. On a large macro scale all that's going to do is change the selection criteria so the poor kids can't get in, or the cool place to get into is no longer "XYZ". Its kind of like real estate blockbusting.
Before major social shifts, you tend to see a lot of pump priming like this to get the population used to the idea of changing things in that area. Likely there is a lot of upheaval anticipated in higher ed or young adulthood and very soon the ticket to the cool kids club is no longer going to be going to Yale... or Stanford... I donno what its going to be, but if we're subject to endless social engineering blockbusting of the ivies, I guarantee whatever the future is, it won't be the ivies.
Perhaps all rich kids will have their parents fund startups instead of going to business school or whatever. Or seeing as professional tutors and grad students are now cheaper than tuition, personalized instruction will become the norm. You don't need a piece of paper to get a title of nobility or meal ticket if your dad is rich enough...
It reads like advice to improve bars and restaurants. Now, the best most profitable bars and restaurants are the ones doing (fill in the blank) the best. To really gullible people, if every bar and restaurant on the planet did (fill in the blank) as well as (cool place) then every bar and restaurant would be as busy and successful as (cool place)... all of them at the same time, LOL. Obviously if air conditioning or electric lights or indoor plumbing were ubiquitous then a new selection criteria would spring up and the best places would have a different mythology about why they're the best and the rest will remain inferior.
Its an intentional confusion of macro and micro policy.
On a micro scale yes its very easy to fine tune some random poor kid to get into the cool kids-only club. On a large macro scale all that's going to do is change the selection criteria so the poor kids can't get in, or the cool place to get into is no longer "XYZ". Its kind of like real estate blockbusting.
Before major social shifts, you tend to see a lot of pump priming like this to get the population used to the idea of changing things in that area. Likely there is a lot of upheaval anticipated in higher ed or young adulthood and very soon the ticket to the cool kids club is no longer going to be going to Yale... or Stanford... I donno what its going to be, but if we're subject to endless social engineering blockbusting of the ivies, I guarantee whatever the future is, it won't be the ivies.
Perhaps all rich kids will have their parents fund startups instead of going to business school or whatever. Or seeing as professional tutors and grad students are now cheaper than tuition, personalized instruction will become the norm. You don't need a piece of paper to get a title of nobility or meal ticket if your dad is rich enough...