[polygamous_bat]

> Who's gonna work the low paying dirty jobs after all if everyone is smart and capable?

Not the son of Jeff Bezos, I can guarantee you that. Your idea would only work if we could completely and clearly separate what we like to call "merit" from "daddy's money". Unfortunately, there are no bulletproof ways of doing so 100% (yet), so we work a little harder to give people with not so much wealth a better shot at life with "no child left behind".

[gptadmirer]

Jeff Bezos is an anomaly. For every Jeff Bezos, there are millions of impoverished Indian/Chinese/Ukrainian/Brazilian/Philliphino children that managed to transform their life by studying programming and/or engineering, medicine, etc really hard.

Some children really should be left behind. If they don't want to study hard, they should be left behind. The earlier they realized this in life, the better.