What moral center? The game has always been work hard and do everything to help your kids succeed, so they can do the same.<p>You either accept those rules and play along or don't. But don't expect others not to play b/c you refuse.<p>I did like the author's bigger point of the top 10% vs the bottom 90%. That divide is widening and crystalizing, which, I feel, is wrecking the American Dream.<p>We need a new Dream, the old one died in the Great Recession.
The crime isn't that these people paid money to get their children into a university, the crime is that the money went to people and organizations other than the university.