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This article strikes me as extraploating a select few experiences to make far reaching conclusions. 99% of the people at yale are not children of billionaires o
by finolex1 7y ago
This article strikes me as extraploating a select few experiences to make far reaching conclusions. 99% of the people at yale are not children of billionaires or statesmen. They are children of doctors, lawyers, programmers, etc. who are wealthy but not wealthy enough to live off their inheritance indefinitely. People attend classes, do research, play sports, or put up performances - in short what's been going on for decades at virtually every college. Maybe there's a larger structural inequality problem in society, but it seems far fetched to point to her anecdotal experiences with rich kids as the cause.
- alexandercrohde 7y agoDo you have a source for the claim that 99% of attendees of Yale don't have enough money to live off their inheritance indefinitely?
- shadowbanme 7y agoDo you have a source for the claim that more than 1% are? I’m not sure why we’re talking about inheritances anyway; most people these days don’t get significant inheritances until they’re in their fifties or sixties, when their parents die. A college student who has already been the recipient of a large inheritance is a rare bird indeed.