The problem isn't poverty but hyper competition. Everyone can see the cost/benefit of everything needed to give their child the best shot. They compare their re

The problem isn't poverty but hyper competition. Everyone can see the cost/benefit of everything needed to give their child the best shot. They compare their resources to the resources needed to compete in the top~5%. In Asia it's tutors, after school school etc. In America it's funding the kind of hobby that looks good on a college application. A century of propaganda is that there is no place for average people anymore, which is statistically ignorant at best.