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Look at nearly all the successful people business people in America and most didn’t either go to college or were not geeks. Gates, Dell, etc. And for every Grove with PhD, I can name 10000 successful business owners.

If you look at the Pres Bush, Kerry, Biden, Powell, Mozillo, Palin, etc, these people are not the A students, they are mediocre students, many somehow getting Ivy League degrees. (Obama one of the few with decent grades, but who has NO street smarts or common sense, which cost him the election. How did that honors degree work out for him, whipped by the plumber!!)

The resentment of the wealthy may come from bailouts and the lack of any “personal responsibility”. “Those fat cats keep all the profits, but me Bob the taxpayer has to pay when he screws up”. We cant have any rules because Angelo and friends wont risk anything unless he knows that PIGGS will bail him if the market forces creates imbalances that cause rapid deceleration of job growth in their empire.
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Holy shit. Now it’s an attack on folks college educated….Wow, the Cultural Revolution in America.
Didn’t one country already provide the flaw in that thinking?

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FLU touched upon Asians working really hard and not advancing as fast/far. If you want to get stuck in this predicament, just study hard, become a geek and end up a pathetic W2 casualty that will get taxed higher and higher by the man to pay for unlimited deficits. Our culture (and tax code) has deemed education passe. Like SDR said so eloquently, deal with it.
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I’m doing quite well as a W2 casualty, thank you very much. In fact, perhaps my point was missed. I was never griping about my pay or compensation. Some of us do care about recognition outside of “job” and are frustrated with inequality and hypocracy of a particular political platform. But that’s beside the point. In short, I’ve just learned to pick my colleagues very very carefully.