Meet The Guy Who Makes $1,000 An Hour Tutoring Kids Of Fortune 500 CEOs Over Skype

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<p>That is an Outlier. Nothing is 100 percent. There is still some movement between classes…</p>

<p>Read the book, The Outlier, by Malcolm Gladwell.</p>

<p>As far as Tiburon goes, I was surprised myself and I lived there. </p>

<p>There is quite a bit on social class in America and how it affects education out there. If you are interested you can find stuff. </p>

<p>There was a great show on pbs called People Like Us Social Class in America. Social class is not just about money…</p>

<p>I think the whole show is great.</p>

<p><a href=“A Nation of Tribes: How Social Class Divides Us - People Like Us episode #1 - YouTube”>A Nation of Tribes: How Social Class Divides Us - People Like Us episode #1 - YouTube;

<p>And sometimes future married couples come from different social classes…</p>

<p><a href=“Trouble in Paradise - People Like Us DELETED SCENE - YouTube”>Trouble in Paradise - People Like Us DELETED SCENE - YouTube;

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<p>It’s not an outlier because according to your post it’s not supposed to happen. The education system is set up to keep the middle class middle class right. Well this guy went to SJSU.
I don’t really need to read any book. I’ve seen plenty of examples in my life time to know that this is not a country to rail against injustice.</p>

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<p>Nevermind…</p>

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<p>DrGoogle…statistically speaking, dstark is right. It’s not that class mobility is a total myth in the U.S. - that would be incorrect. And yes, some people do get very fortunate - or very talented - and manage to move from working class or middle class to very wealthy, like Jan Koum (one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, to whom I think you were referring when you said the “welfare to billionnaire WhatsApp guy”).</p>

<p>But the reason those stories are so compelling is because they are uncommon. Koum really is an outlier, by the statistical meaning of the word. It’s not that it’s not “supposed to happen” - it simply doesn’t happen very often, though, and if you focus primarily on stories like Koum’s you get the distorted idea that class mobility like that happens all the time in the U.S., when it really doesn’t. There have been scores and scores of scientific/economic essays and studies written/conducted on this. Class mobility is actually [more</a> difficult](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/09/news/economy/america-economic-mobility/]more”>America's economic mobility myth) in the U.S. than it is in France, Canada, or Japan - actually the [U.S&lt;/a&gt;. and the UK rank among the lowest in intergenerational class mobility among developed countries](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>The American Myth of Social Mobility | HuffPost Impact). [Seventy</a> percent of Americans born into the lower income bracket stay there](<a href=“http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/making-it-into-the-middle-class/?iid=EL]Seventy”>http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/making-it-into-the-middle-class/?iid=EL), and only 4 percent become high earners. A child born in 1986 into the lowest income quintile has about a [9%</a> chance of moving into the highest income quintile in his lifetime.](<a href=“http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america-no-less-socially-mobile-it-was-generation-ago-mobility-measured]9%”>Mobility, measured)</p>

<p>The good news, though, is that education is really the key to upward social mobility. Eighty-four percent of people who started off in the lowest income quintile but earned a college degree were able to move out of that quintile later in life.</p>

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<p>Just bcs someone is paying 200 bucks for a haircut, 2,000 bucks for a handbag or 20,000 bucks for a wristwatch, doesn’t mean they’re getting more utility for the money.</p>

<p>I spent 20 bucks for an SAT test prep book for DS. I’m perfectly satisfied w the results.</p>

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<p>dstark, too weird–when my son was around that age and we were at the store he did the same thing with grapefruit. But they were 5 for a dollar. He said, “So that means they’re 20 cents each, right?” He’s never had a tutor, either. :)</p>

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<p>MODERATOR’S NOTE - I deleted several posts. Please remain civil and don’t get into politics. Members don’t like it when we close threads - please help me avoid that!</p>

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<p>I got myself from a 1680 to a 2280 with one $30 practice book from collegeboard. This just seems like another case of the extremely rich throwing money at their problems (or in this case, their kids’ problems) to make them go away. No reason a determined teenager can’t experience improvement with hard work and discipline for under $50.</p>

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