The Velvet Rope After Knowledge Dies: Why Elites Cling Harder to the Ivy League in the AI Era
While Silicon Valley founders declare the college degree dead and recruit high school graduates directly, America's ruling class is pouring record capital into securing Ivy League admission. As artificial intelligence drives the marginal cost of technical skill and raw knowledge to zero, elite universities are shedding their industrial disguise as vocational schools and reverting to their original historical function: the world's most fortified private club.
