Perhaps what really matters for accumulating wealth is not being transmitted in colleges?
Call me crazy, but if your assumption is that opening the doors to the unwashed masses and funding lots of education for poor people raises them up, and it doesn't? Perhaps you should verify your assumptions. Perhaps what really matters for accumulating wealth is the modeling of attitudes and virtues from an existing wealthy set of parents. Much the same way that watching a movie of a famous piano player won't help you play the piano, but working day-to-day with one might, perhaps all this structural, fact-based education actually misses the point of how wealth really accumulates? Perhaps wealth generation is actually more of a learned art, not an applied science. EDIT: I see pg says this could also be the quality of the schools, and I think this dovetails in with what I'm saying. It's better to be around folks who model and demonstrate the best wealth-generating lifestyles in order to generate wealth yourself. When we look at the word "education," we are measuring the wrong thing.
Don't know. Just putting it out there. I found this essay thought-provoking. Much better than the usual fare on this topic.
Call me crazy, but if your assumption is that opening the doors to the unwashed masses and funding lots of education for poor people raises them up, and it doesn't? Perhaps you should verify your assumptions. Perhaps what really matters for accumulating wealth is the modeling of attitudes and virtues from an existing wealthy set of parents. Much the same way that watching a movie of a famous piano player won't help you play the piano, but working day-to-day with one might, perhaps all this structural, fact-based education actually misses the point of how wealth really accumulates? Perhaps wealth generation is actually more of a learned art, not an applied science. EDIT: I see pg says this could also be the quality of the schools, and I think this dovetails in with what I'm saying. It's better to be around folks who model and demonstrate the best wealth-generating lifestyles in order to generate wealth yourself. When we look at the word "education," we are measuring the wrong thing.
Don't know. Just putting it out there. I found this essay thought-provoking. Much better than the usual fare on this topic.