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The booming world of specialised private education for the super-rich https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/26/the-booming-world-of-specialised-private-education-for-super-rich
TohmaytohTohmahtoh
JohnSmitheson
Merit be damned, we're devolving back into feudal classes.
bluetoaster42
So in other words if we're not rich we should just kill ourselves.
fnoigy
Maybe I can go back into formal education....
Mickazilla
How about the super rich give fundings to public schools instead?
Subsound
...and let their kids mingle with the poor?
ChickenChickenBurningBright
I am all in favor of any system that siphons wealth away from those fucks, no matter how stupid.
MutatedHorse
Everyone needs to look up "project 2025"
override367
how the fuck do I get a job tutoring these little shit
popeyeNL
How is £2m the same as 2m the same as 288.000? 2m is 2 million, right?
JahNoodles
Rich people: how do we turn these nerds into sellouts?
tallyhoho
Money is a strong motivator
IUpvoteFuturama
That's a lot of money to pay someone to take your kid's tests.
albaboss
I tutor middle schoolers in math and I charge different amounts based on what parents make. I usually do it for free for my low income kids. One of my kids, both of his parents are doctors, and I charge them $40 an hour but I swear I could charge $100 and they’d pay it easy. It’s insane
JustSomeDevGuy
Clickbait headline; the pay is $288k/yr which over a potential 7 years or schooling could total out to ~2m.
trexskull
well it's to be expected - it's a grauniad article. only one worse is the daily nazi... I mean mail. both extreme view chip papers (one left, one right)
PanNonOpticon
This might sound insane, but when you consider that for each famous architect there are probably a hundred equally good or even better that aren't famous and whose pay is a few % of famous ones, it starts to make sense. They only lack notarity.
If they get fame early on the pay increase will pay the 2M pretty quickly.
Navrodel
Rich people paying exorbitantly for private tutors for their children as the public option is being burned to the ground?
Same as it ever was.
williamvanauger
So funny in the UK watching our newspapers go "the left want to tax private schools!!!!!!" And the entire nation is going "so?" They don't need to follow the national curriculum, don't get inspected by Ofsted and when beating was made illegal in schools they even got an exception on that for about a decade. Private schools shouldn't exist.
Broonstar
https://imgur.com/ogPF891
GreenMnM
This is shocking! I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
SavageDrums
Fuck the rich. Then take away their money.
Koldfront
Honestly hoping for some Gentlemen Bastard level conman to swoop in and absolutely hose these delusional fucks.
Toqom
They'll grow up ignoring anything they learned since it doesn't matter to rich kids
Poppypoppoppop
grokitman
That sounds like paying someone to get the kids jobs through connections. That's not a tutor...that's a fixer.
Someshithead241
It's money laundering.
tariqk
MelfsAcidArrow
Regarding the super rich, is there a special kind of toilet paper or toothpaste they buy? I was thinking about it the other day. Like, are they getting the same stuff from the grocery store or is there some super elite brand of asswipes I am not even aware of? And yeah bidets and stuff but still you use paper too
Heninthefoxden
Some, but they also buy the high end versions of all these things in small boutique grocers or freshmarket. For example, the Kardashians and other reality millionaires often drink basic Mumm champagne which you can get in any Publix for $35-50. A bottle of Cooks (cheap) is $10. If they are really super wealthy they don't even do their own shopping .
florpglorp
There are over priced grocery stores I have seen them in manhattan. They really are paying more for basic shit
meergull
"leverage connections" So a bribe?
loperinter
It's networking. And a qualification. They're looking for top level people who will have actual connections, not just a "really good architecture tutor"
Hyndisfox
Thats always been how its worked. Pharaoh is building a new pyramid and your uncle's friend is on the project? Network and get that job.
dingofdong
Oh no, it's only a bribe if it comes from the bribe region. Otherwise it's just sparkling nepotism
paintingagency
The money is intentionally too good to turn down. Because for that, you'll be expected to put the little shit through school even if they couldn't design an outhouse. Write their assignments. Help them cheat on tests. And then shamelessly shill to get them into the profession where their idiocy will be a stain on YOUR professional reputation forever.
Someshithead241
I mean with the way architecture is going now you're either gonna be designing a square or some ungodly abomination that just appeals to corpo ego and doesn't obey physics at allm
Thandruin
Well, it's not like professional designers aren't forced to sacrifice their souls on the corporate altar to begin with.
hollerfloozy
We need to eat the rich. Not just talk about it.
VonBallsHausen
If 1000 of us pick one person out there to eat, and publicize it, it will shake the entire world.
nerdyvet
tbf, it can be super dangerous to engage in cannibalism if one's species is not specifically evolved for this (protip: ours is not). Prion disease will pass through livestock species too, so even feeding them to pigs and eating the pigs MAY be risky.
I think processing the rich via mindful composting would work, though.
ActionJohnnie
You can have a little human flesh, as a snack.
NullSecc
TheUnstoppableWampas
Then stop talking and start eating.
DorgEndo
hollerfloozy
I can only eat so much so fast. Others gotta do their part.
Goldensands
What part are you doing? I'll emulate it if I can
hollerfloozy
Right now, I'm prepping like the championship hotdog eaters do. Been doin some reading on it and if I keep at it, when the time actually comes I'll be able to down a whole billionaire by myself.
Goldensands
So, nothing. Just jokes
JimmieRustlin
Someshithead241
That's the complete reason why they don't want them to quit. "Help with coursework and exams" means pushing them through even if they don't earn it and cheating, so they pass no matter what.
Then "leveraging connections" means using nepotism to get them a highly paid, cushy job that they just needed the degree for but no knowledge despite their decisions massively impacting the people who actually worked for the position and do all the work.
Someshithead241
It's a smokescreen for bribery to push the kid through and into a nepo baby job. It's money laundering.
tallyhoho
Money laundering?
Someshithead241
Well it's essentially a bribe to push the kid through the university and into a cushy job. But if you suddenly got 2 million a year and this was happening, people would question it.
But if you're their 'personal tutor' then suddenly the money, while extravagant, becomes legal and clean.
5omeWhiteGuy
In theory this doesn't sound bad. Good pay for someone to directly facilitate someone's education. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the end result will be more "we are paying you to put their name on your work"
DrewK98
Except in this case the only "education" they're facilitating is, "Here are the private phone numbers of the hiring managers of the three largest firms."
depressedscientist
Maybe at face value. But there are some obvious details to be concerned about. Such as “paying for leveraging connections to find placement in competitive firms”
cgt9803
I think it's much more about this. They're buying your connections to make sure the little emperor lands a plum architecture job. With that kind of money, the family could commission him to build something just to give him experience.
PorneliusHubertII
It sounds like they want to pay someone to get their kid a degree.
frostyTunak
Oh, I think its more, only the rich will have an actual education, everyone else gets scraps because we dont deserve to actually be intelligent since we are 'le poors'
potshot
The problem isn't really even that. It's that a lot of opportunities are behind some kind of skill or aptitude test, which while not perfect, is an okay selection method if we assume roughly similar educational backgrounds. With hyperspecialized tutoring you can optimize for those tests in particular, and with enough private tutoring, almost anyone can learn enough to pass a test. That doesn't mean they are necessarily the best fit though, even with all the extra practice. The solution is (1)
potshot
either to remove the barrier of entry completely where applicable, and diversify the tests enough that it is almost impossible to "min-max" for them. But both options take a lot of work and resources.
somewhatparanoidpanda
The issue is that rich people decide where our tax dollars are spent. The more they spend on private education the less public education we get.
jesuisgur
Since I was a kid I always thought that private education should be outlawed. Isn't it what some scandinavian country did and they are now #1 in world education or something ? Finland maybe ?
Blud4BludGod
That's one of the issues. The one that person described, paying for specialists to ghostwrite their children's work, is also a huge issue, and related to the one you described- after all, wouldn't you like it if these highly accredited, successful, powerful people whose opinions hold such weight in our society weren't absolutely fucking dumb as shit?
ThriceGreat
And there is a constant lobbying to reduce and eliminate public education completely so that private education is the only option
BobsBurgerslurker
So in other words these "students" will have no idea how the real world works without nepotism.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
I’m guessing somehow they may just avoid any negative consequences of this.
Jarjarthejedi
Why would they need to know how the real world would work without nepotism? It's got plenty of that today and doesn't seem to be changing... :/
johnvictor
Fuck eh. They were born on home and will think they scored the winning home run.
MarkOfTheCovenant
They don't need to. They'll never exist in a world even close to the "real" one.
GlenL
I'm sure their plan was always to go work at dad's company after they graduate anyway, this doesn't change much just instead of bribing the school, they're hiring tutors.
BayazTheBenevolent
To them, that IS the real world. They don't need to understand how it would be without Nepotism.
StaccatoShrimp
Where is this real world without nepotism and how do i join!
RooGryphon
All they will know is I got mine, fuck you. That's who the kid will grow up to be. All they ever known is how to fuck people over to gain more money
SpacecouchCowboy
Unfortunately this IS the way the real world works. Not how it should, but how it is.
datphone777365
They wouldnt have anyway.
Shaodyn
None. They'll be taught only what their parents want them to learn, mostly that poor people barely qualify as human except in the loosest possible sense of the word and deserve absolutely nothing.
Shaodyn
In fact, we should probably be hunting the homeless for sport but the Big Mean Government won't let us. Apparently that's a crime, which is something only poor people without awesome lawyers have to worry about.
wodansring
yup..... subtle, eh?
ZK383
I too, welcome our incompetent, overly pampered overlords.
matrixalgebra
how it worked for most of human history
UserWithoutUsername
They will hire a tutor to learn that.
RomanValkre
The sad truth is, this is how the real world works for them. Merit based economy for us... and rampant nepotism and corruption foe them. (And yes I am putting a positive spin on the whole thing calling it a Merit based economy)
AlexSomething
So you're saying we're f2p, while they're p2w. Gotcha.
MikeRInternetTraveler
Except we are absolutely not f2p. Student loans say otherwise. No one is playing this game for free.
7hatsBollocks
I always called f2p as "fee to pay".
proxy5000
The only purpose of capitalism as we know it is the accumulation of wealth. If this can be done by competition, quality products, excellent service, then so that's what companies will do. But if more money can be made by monopolistic control, price fixing, bribery, harm to the environment or workers or consumers or all of the above, then that's fine too. Literally nothing matters except quarterly gains.
TheDefective
Capital seeks the most profit for the least labor in the most markets. Creating products for everyone in general and no one in particular.