Yeah my example is off because anyone who goes to Yale is already wealthy in the first place. On a related rant ... obviously there is no real difference betwe

Yeah my example is off because anyone who goes to Yale is already wealthy in the first place. On a related rant ... obviously there is no real difference between a Yale education and a state school education ... academically speaking. What you get at Yale is the social network and the "badge" ... so (as you say) you can walk into any job on Wall St., Publishing, Consulting, etc, and have an immediate "in"... just because of the badge and the social connections. The idea that there us upward mobility in today's society is a farce.