The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivies?

I've often wondered whether we're approaching a bipolar world where 1% of our population is educated at the Ivies Plus Two (Stanford & MIT) and lives in a completely different world than the rest of us. Two of my cousins graduated from Yale, live in San Francisco, work in the art world, and one is getting married on Martha's Vineyard next summer. I doubt they think of themselves as part of the "1%," but it sure looks that way to the rest of us.

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