How often are poor people and people of color blamed for something that is actually being perpetrated by the rich? We have the college bribery scandal. In another arena we have immigrants getting blamed for "taking American jobs," when it is rich people who demand poverty-wage workers, instead. We also have the Medicaid waivers program, where any income, even in the $ millions, is waived in order to receive Medicaid services. The list goes on and on. The rich have been gaming the system for ages. Let's hope we've reached a tipping point.

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My kid's school is one of the top performers in the state, and as such, a lot of wealthy families move here. There are so many bright kids that there are multiple valedictorians, because several will tie, others will be a hundredth of a percentile below them. These kids will apply to scores of schools, because their parents can afford the grand or two in application fees, and then boast how many ivy schools they get into. Kids will get 5-8 acceptance letters, when they really only wanted to go to one or two schools tops. They run around, during yearbook signing, bragging to one another who many schools they got accepted to, and which ones. They'll post it on their social media and so will their parents.

Others will find the schools that their "friends" want to go to and submit there, to not only brag to their "friend" that they got into that school, but also to bump their "friend" off of the candidate list. These kids are really horrible people.

See, a university will send a variable amount of acceptance letters to a school in a given year. One year, Harvard might send 4, the next 3. What these kids do it take those acceptance slots away from their classmates, who then must struggle with the hope that they might get on a wait list.

I wish that kids would be capped to apply to just a few schools, and some schools and perhaps even the Common App prevent the online application of more than 5 schools at a time, but wow! These kids apply manually to these schools and screw their classmates. I guess that's also their last hurrah!

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In some cases things end up being run by incompetents who didn't learn anything in school but had the connections and money to get in and get through it, made the connections they needed for the future, and eventually got top jobs running things despite their incompetence. Princelings. See: Dubya, Dump, and countless other Republicans.

Inheritin' a forchun is hard werk!