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Aside: Do you know Reich's son is CEO of College Humor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Reich

>In 2000, Reich dropped out of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School as a result of clinical depression and in order to pursue acting.

I'd say getting a STEM PhD has different mobility defects than being black/italian & being Jewish compensates for those (as in, one is conditioned to pass on valuable stuff to your kids that aren't always backed by hard assets or knowledge)

As another (negative) example, Ben Shapiro probably didn't get the skills required to deconstruct his forebear's world-models but he got the leg up in terms of getting his mediocre ideas heard (albeit he has actionable insights about meaning vs motivation that got drowned out in the "nepotic noise")