I don’t get this whole prestige thing and how bad its gotten. Granted I’m a decade older than most of these folks, but in my generation everyone wanted to the boss, not the employee, no matter how presiguis the employee position was. The idea of making it was owning your own company. You were judged solely on what you did personally, not on the name of the school you went to.
Nobody from my generation would have though anyone was better than anyone else for the degree name, they would be like “what did you do to get the schools rep, nothing, your just riding coattails of some else’s sucess.” Now its like people are very happy to be a worker bee for someone else who has done all the work to be prestigious. There just seems to be a complete lack of entrapuanural sprit with kids today. Reminds of that commercial where the kid says his goal in life is “to claw his way up to middle management.”
People seem very cotenant with thinking they should just be giving the merits of success without taking any of the risks to get there on their own.