TIL some people's parents pay for HALF their rent and bills...
Every day is a test of my resolve not to become envious or resentful.
But this is right up there with female FULL scholarships for how much it shocked me
@basedbagel I was at the table once when a son asked his dad to pay the ENTIRE down payment on his house. And he was a complete piece of shit. I'm starting to suspect the two things are related.
> pay the ENTIRE down payment on his house.
😲 You just can't make this stuff up.
In fairness My parents pitch in for education related stuff but even then I STILL have student loans 😭
Meanwhile some lucky jackass is going to get a down payment on their house and/or a 50% of their bills and rent paid...
But we gotta pull ourselves up by our 🥾 straps...
I try not to think about it, its so painful.
The night before my first day of college many many moons ago I was working late at a shitty job earning shit money. I had next to nothing.
The next day at college I met a guy who was living in an apartment close by, bought for him outright by his dad.
> I met a guy who was living in an apartment close by, bought for him outright by his dad.
The best privilege is rich/sane family privilege and there's not even a close second.
These nepo babies will brag about their 4.0s and never acknowledge the fact that your background stress of trying not to starve has anything to do with your slightly lower GPA
Like TFM, I was blessed with above average intelligence.
According to Jordan Peterson, "if you could choose to be born at the 95th percentile for wealth, or the 95th percentile for IQ, you would be more successful at age 40 as a consequence of the latter choice."
Sounds roughly correct when looking at the outcomes of lottery winners, but also assumes low levels of political corruption.
@UncleIroh @basedbagel Peterson is citing studies from the least credible field of study in academia. He also encourages extreme naivete in approaching these findings.
As you say, corruption is a big deal. Stupid people discovered that you don't have to be smart if you cheat. And they exhibit an in-group preference of their own, where they band together against talented people.
He is quoted as saying that the relevant Pearson correlation coefficients in these studies - the 'r' value - tops out at 0.6 for grades-to-IQ, and 0.25 for grades-to-conscientiousness, which if true is pretty high for that field.
But yes, corruption is a huge deal. Parents buying their kids Ivy league places is the least of it.
The entire education ecosystem from K through to post-grad peer review is a cesspool of corruption.
Almost nothing worth saving from it.
Eric Weinstein, while being an obnoxious Jew, does a decent job of pointing out academic corruption.
He calls Harvard a hedge fund that happens to also have a university, which is true.
He also explains how it and other Ivy Leagues function as government and defense partners whose main job is to create, maintain and gatekeep scholarship that supports foreign and domestic policy narratives at the expense of truth.
Globohomo is the perfect example.
@UncleIroh @basedbagel >Ivy Leagues function as government and defense partners
Every state is going to have institutions like this. But they don't have to be connected to teaching the next generation of intellectuals and publishing papers. Our system of laundering illegal government activity through pseudo-private entities magnifies the damage caused when the government lies.
@Mongoliaboo @basedbagel
> laundering illegal government activity through pseudo-private entities
That's exactly it, but in this case laundering reputations and shoddy/fake scholarship that can be used as academic justification for war and then distributed through state media.
They are also big Intelligence partners, which is to be expected, especially if you study cryptography, quantum computing or similar discplines.