No-one wants to acknowledge it, but elitism works. Hanging out with a bunch of people who are better (on whatever metric you care to pick) is just a lot more pl

No-one wants to acknowledge it, but elitism works. Hanging out with a bunch of people who are better (on whatever metric you care to pick) is just a lot more pleasant than hanging out with the unwashed masses, as well as making you more productive etc.. Of course the flip side is that those who are excluded don't benefit, so I suspect it's all zero-sum or worse.