I think your (a) is due to wealth inequality. Even if people don’t know those two words, it’s not hard to see that $10 to $20 per hour jobs will get you nowhere. I think people do see the increasingly winner take all nature of business, that moving up to th next class is impossible if you aren’t able to achieve select professional routes. And worst of all, it’s so obvious that their children will be so far behind in terms of networking, signaling, and resources that their chances are also diminished.