In contrast, Potter "conspires to reap only short-term profits... in Potter's world, only the fittest survive, and to use the advantages of wealth to get more wealth is a perfectly rational way of life".
The advantages of wealth, mobility and education afforded by access to the right neighborhoods, the right schools and the right extracurricular activities reveal that the competition is rigged from the start.
New York declared in a story, "Arianna Stassinopoulos has become, in record time, a fixture in East Side social life, and without the advantages of wealth, a title, or conventional beauty".
Liberals and conservatives alike pin their hopes on education as the "great leveler," but the data tells us that the American education system magnifies the advantages of wealth and the disadvantages of poverty.
(She and campaign officials say it was her choice; others say the president-elect had no interest in a confirmation fight at a time of public anger over the advantages of wealth).
While middle-class and rich children no doubt have to burn the midnight oil to get into Harvard and Yale, they mostly end up at those places because of the huge advantages that wealth confers in the context of a failing public education system.
After the obvious "rich and famous" advantages of wealth, public recognition, and unlimited access to pretty much whatever you want, the celebrity story darkens.
For Mrs. Reagan, with the advantages of wealth and prestige, it would have been far simpler to leave the former President to the care of attendants for needs.
