Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Well, nice to know Jared Kushner, like his father-in-law, only needed a few million dollars to bribe himself into Harvard.  I guess I knew rich people had "legacy" and "clout" and chits to call in, vaguely, at least, but this level of injustice is stunning to me.  These are the same kids who have already been given every privilege over us ordinary folk, and they will use their "resume" to gain further power and influence and a little check written here and there will smooth their way and their kids' way through life.  The rest of us were shoved to the side to make room for the ruling class.  Actually, I went to a state school, and it was the best in the country at the time, and my parents, who had not gone to college and in my mother's case even elementary school, would not have had any idea that such activities lurked beneath the surface.  I'm thinking again of some of the schools my kids didn't get in, and they were private schools, no doubt filled with "generous" parents.  They ended up at great schools, on their own merits, but now I'm amazed they even got in those.  What a corrupt world of class we live in, and people gravitate toward these rich people as if they are better than us.  They look younger (plastic surgery) and are complimented on their looks, arranged by surgeons and stylists and wardrobes that dazzle.  They take credit for their kids' successes, yet they have bought those bragging points, and they are in such a bubble they forget there may be honest, hardworking people out there, doing well without networking, which I now see means bribery.