Monopoly reflects some of the enduring inequities in American society and the uglier parts of our history. From segregation and redlining to capitalism run rampant. Yet, it's also built on this powerful American lore. The idea that anyone with just a little bit of cash can rise from rags to riches in this country.
The Ivy League generally attracts two cohorts, freakishly remarkable kids and the children of rich people. And disproportionately, increasingly more the latter than the former. The former is used as Vaseline to smear over the lens of income inequality and the fact that kids from the top 1% income earning households are 77 times more likely to get into an elite university.
no matter how hard the millennials and Gen Z workers work, they're never going to get to be members. They're not going to be able to pay that 300K initiation fee. And that felt like an appropriate metaphor for, I think, how a lot of people are feeling today, you know.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
