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posted by mrpg on Friday April 21 2017, @06:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the college-matters dept.

In a recent study, we investigated how many of the wealthiest and most influential people graduated college. We studied 11,745 U.S. leaders, including CEOs, federal judges, politicians, multi-millionaires and billionaires, business leaders and the most globally powerful men and women.

We found about 94 percent of these U.S. leaders attended college, and about 50 percent attended an elite school. Though almost everyone went to college, elite school attendance varied widely. For instance, only 20.6 percent of House members and 33.8 percent of 30-millionaires attended an elite school, but over 80 percent of Forbes' most powerful people did. For whatever reason, about twice as many senators – 41 percent – as House members went to elite schools.

For comparison, based on census and college data, we estimate that only about 2 to 5 percent of all U.S. undergraduates went to one of the elite schools in our study. The people from our study attended elite schools at rates well above typical expectations.

Why waste $150,000 on an education you could get for $1.50 in late fees at the public library?


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:44AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:44AM (#497268)

    You know young rich niggas
    You know so we never really had no old money
    We got a whole lot of new money though, hah

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:51AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:51AM (#497272)

    Ugh, you're attempt at some sort of authenticity comes off as veiled racism.

    Yes, the "aristocracy" had a few decades of trouble as silicon valley disrupted business as usual. However, as we can all see the wild frontier of possibility is being locked down for strict control and manipulation.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:59AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @06:59AM (#497279)

      Don't you know hip-hop music is a black youth's ticket out of the poverty trap. More generally any kind of nonproductive work that gains celebrity is the fast track to fortune. Because our civilization is made entirely out of bullshit.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday April 21 2017, @03:27PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 21 2017, @03:27PM (#497452) Journal

        Have faith in America's leaders. They will fix everything. They lead by example. And the people should be inspired to follow in their footsteps:
        1. go to prestigious school
        2. become famous
        3. learn to influence people
        4. become successful

        For instance:
        1. (go to prestigious school) be unable to read, write or speak in complete sentences
        2. (become famous) be a reality tv star, the type of job which is the economic powerhouse of the 21st century
        3. (learn to influence people) use language like Trust Me, I Promise, Believe Me, which is the language of a con man; normal people with reputation of honesty and fair dealing don't talk like this
        4. (become successful) but don't release tax returns or anything that could reveal just how unsuccessful you actually are; or that would let the newer investors know what happened to older investors, or about any possible smoke screens concealing debt, etc

        No specific American leaders were named, and any resemblance to actual persons is unintentional and purely coincidental. Very few animals were harmed in the making of this post.

        --
        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.