In Response to “waveyman”, A.K.A. Grant on the College Admissions Scandal

If I swore to you all that my goal on this site was not to make enemies, I fear you would not believe me after my past response was posted.  Today, I know that opinion will not change, as I feel the need to argue boiling back within me. I have come across a blog for whom the owner, Grant, claims in this post that he doesn’t “understand why there is a hatred towards the people that have succeeded the system rather than hatred towards the system itself.” (Grant, p. 4)  What population are you drawing from? What people have you located who hate only rich people, and not the system that perpetuates their social hierarchy of ultimate control over the market, poor people, and now, apparently, the educational system? For God’s sake, if college wasn’t expensive in my time, it is inexorably inaccessible now; do you want to know who’s really working to go college?  The lower middle class. In fact, anyone whose parents both work for a less than five figure salary is working to go to college.  

Anyone with Douglas Hodge’s amount of money didn’t work to make all of it for their kids.

I hear again and again this centrist idea that “society is too hard on rich people, they’ve worked hard for what they have” what, and poor people aren’t working just as, if not twice as hard?  And to what avail, in this economy dominated by the one percent? It makes me sick.

This event was labeled a “scandal” by centrist (most) media.  The middle and lower class consider it an outrage.

Thank you.