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.
Abundance without participation, abundance without inclusion, feels like scarcity. It feels like scarcity. You think you're scaling abundance, but we experience it as you scaling scarcity.
Somebody is getting screwed in this country and somebody is doing the screwing. It's just not immigrants and Muslims and gay kids and drag shows. It's corporations and billionaires and super PACs.
How do we do away with the the transfer and the cost of transferring money from an anxious, obese, and depressed generation to the wealthiest generation in the history of the planet, and that is baby boomers.
I mean, it probably looks different if you're a tourist walking the grounds than it would if you're one of the kids of that high school across the street.
There is a sort of Stanford inside Stanford where the most elite students who are going to found the trillion-dollar companies are dragged into this alternate reality and and foisted with excess and access and learn how to cut corners.
The 0.1% have their own transportation. They don't give a shit about 4-hour TSA lines. They have their own police forces. They live in buildings in neighborhoods that are of incredible security. They have their own health care. So what is their vested interest?
When you have corruption like this at this scale, if you're a young kid, if you're a young Scott Galloway, a young Anthony Scaramucci, you're looking up and you're seeing a concrete ceiling.
But still, one in five people across the planet remain excluded. There is a stark regional divide, a gender divide, and a digital divide that must be bridged.
When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.
It's turning all of American life into a Las Vegas table game. There's always this kind of glittering mirage of profit that you're chasing, when, in reality, it's designed to sort of demoralize and crush every regular person who plays.
