bloodborne

If you were poor, you would not have the time to make those sacrifices. Instead all your free time would go into minimum wage job whose long term return is not being homeless and barely scraping by. Wealth give you the opportunity to not be homeless and invest in yourself instead of working, the long term returns of which are dramatic.

I would disagree. If you experience poverty you realize that making over 50k is intense. Making over 100k means a lot of power and connection compared to most. You may just be underestimating how many advantages that amount of money truly gives you over everyone else, in terms of opportunity, time, educational resources, guidance, lack of prejudice, and sheer wealth. I would argue the article is taking about "rich kids"

Maybe I misunderstood, sorry if I am. Are you saying that you're family made greater than 196k and that you were not wealthy? If so I'd say you are out of touch. That is ridiculously wealthy for the majority of humans alive. You're view might be skewed by seeing the ultra rich at Yale as your classmates. Which all goes back to the original point, these ivy league schools favor the rich