Indeed, and it’s also terribly counter-productive in that it borders on anti-intellectualism. If you care about regular folks having a good life and having goo

Indeed, and it’s also terribly counter-productive in that it borders on anti-intellectualism. If you care about regular folks having a good life and having good opportunities, if you want the American dream (work hard and get rewarded) to be true, then a big part of that requires “vertical mobility”, and that means that you should want regular people to be able to achieve “elite status”. It’s not the existence of elites that is the problem, it’s how fairly opportunities are distributed and how fairly people are rewarded. Stated in another way, the problem is not the elite, the problem is how the elite is made.