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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your nephew has a degree from Duke he is qualified to be a finance bro, like all the other Duke finance bros.  [/quote]

Especially considering he got into Duke as a MC candidate![/quote]

It is an accomplishment but kids are admitted into college in December of their senior year when they're age 17. It is now nearly March 2024. December 2019 is ancient history. If you have nothing relevant or impressive in those 4.5 years since submitting college applications, how do you deserve a job kids kill for?[/quote]

I mean people are getting jobs from something that happened 21 years ago — who their parents were. [/quote]

Why are you suggesting affluent students with connected parents are undeserving high born slackers? Affluent teens are often high motor, really ambitious students. David Brooks wrote a viral essay about such students over 20 years ago in The Atlantic:

[i]The Organization Kid

The young men and women of America's future elite work their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life

By David Brooks[/i]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/the-organization-kid/302164/

Such students at the best colleges are still often shut out from these top banking jobs because they are ultra competitive and the pay is so extravagant.[/quote]

You're quoting David Brooks, the token Republican at the NYT who only hasn't been fired because all the other candidates are crazy?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/06/16/the-david-brooks-files-how-many-uncorrected-mistakes-does-it-take-to-be-discredited/

I notice in his survey of these hardworking kids none of them hold on-campus jobs to pay tuition...

Not to mention his whole marriage snafu:

https://medium.com/crows-feet/why-you-probably-shouldnt-listen-to-david-brooks-about-marriage-915d1f64bc41

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