the rich have plenty of material advantages and don’t need more.
The point of race-based affirmative action in the USA is that we have evidence systemic disadvantages for certain races, so those could be systemically ‘balanced’ with affirmative action (‘balanced’ in quotes because all of these things are band-aids at some level).
And certainly you will agree that ONLY the rich having advantages is the worst of all worlds, as it will continue to concentrate wealth in few hands and destabilize society.
I agree that the US college system is insane in general. We should probably start regarding them as nothing more than overpriced branded buildings, because they are not going to reform themselves and indeed they probably always functioned as rubber-stamp factories for the rich. They don’t know how to change now.
I’d find that easy:
the rich have plenty of material advantages and don’t need more.
The point of race-based affirmative action in the USA is that we have evidence systemic disadvantages for certain races, so those could be systemically ‘balanced’ with affirmative action (‘balanced’ in quotes because all of these things are band-aids at some level).
And certainly you will agree that ONLY the rich having advantages is the worst of all worlds, as it will continue to concentrate wealth in few hands and destabilize society.
I agree that the US college system is insane in general. We should probably start regarding them as nothing more than overpriced branded buildings, because they are not going to reform themselves and indeed they probably always functioned as rubber-stamp factories for the rich. They don’t know how to change now.