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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.

"More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income"

https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download

I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to 'go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it'. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A better example is any flavor of engineer. Usually well educated, earn well over median wage, yet are not wealthy. Are they elite?

Or what about teachers. Very well educated, are building our future, yet don’t get paid nearly enough. Elite? Or non-lite?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

depends on how wealthy their parents were.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's more of a US issue.