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Author saying “Let me guess… You paid for your son’s education” can fuck off, especially calling the old guy entitled later on. People aren't invalidated by having wealthy parents. The author's reasoning appears to be Wealth implies Education ergo Education implies abuse of wealth. I'd wager most kids at stanford did not get there through special connections. They may have had additional advantages in life that allowed them to self-invest and get into Stanford, but its not without substantial merit. I did not go to stanford*

Comparing attendance at Stanford to requiring a college degree is also a pointless comparison. If you're on the fence about whether or not a college degree is required for a job, you're not looking for students from stanford, with the odd exception of programmers who can somewhat frequently big up a large degree of technical expertise on their own. Even if you do want to take the stance that requiring college degrees is discriminatory, shitting on some old guy for being proud of his son's academic achievements without any evidence that it wasn't earned on merit is extremely rude. And for what its worth, I'd bet heavily on a random student from stanford over a random student from my undergrad being more generally competent at intellectual tasks.

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I'd rephrase that as:

"On top of financing tuition assistance and scholarship programs via the income tax you pay, your son wasn't eligible for these programs so you had to foot the bill yourself for his education"

> And for what its worth, I'd bet heavily on a random student from stanford over a random student from my undergrad being more generally competent at intellectual tasks.

I agree. But keep in mind there are outliers everywhere, and selective schools are quite small. The average at a mega-public school might be bad, but the top 10% might be on-par with a smaller more selective school, quality and number-wise.