The difference is that the kid from the wealthy family does not need to be curious, driven or determined to achieve the outcome.
Wealthy may not been 100% correlated with well connected, but there’s a lot of overlap. And being well connected is wayyy more useful than any fucking phone or LLM for the presented examples.
When I was a kid my parents were too broke and too busy for us to involve ourselves in extracurricular activities. It wasn’t until the latter half of my senior year of high school I was able to convince them to let me anything of that sort.
I guess with the model at least you guarantee very small class sizes.
The actual fix is a massive economic correction.
Jobs markets are already adjusting, without even an economic blip.
Academia, on the other hand, is facing a massive correction, especially as decreased demand increases prices, further reducing demand in a positive feedback loop that will not end well.
Curious about what you think these economic corrections should look like.
