. . . representatives of The Reality-Based Aristocrats, and the idea that the barbarous and unwashed Others who are Not Them, or, worse, So Not Them As To Be Conservative, are making the bigbux which they themselves cannot seem to achieve completely infuriates them.

Their hatred of “the rich” stems from this jealousy. They were supposed to be the Elect, not those low-class money-grubbing ex-jocks and potheads.

More likely, to their vast surprise and outrage, their degrees in Seventeenth Century Feminist Thought and The Physics of Evil White Guys Falling failed to bring to them the adulation and remuneration to which they felt entitled as

There is a whole lot of education that is not ivy league. Specially not at the state school level.

If they were truly interested in the above, they would be out in the world changing it, instead of being cloistered in their little “ivy covered” tower, insulated from that world.

Anyway, who says that any of them are capable of competing out in the world?

“Those that can do;
Those that can’t teach!”

Hell, I’ll take that salary!!! I’d have to rob a lot of drug dealers to make that much.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9244192

About twelve paragraphs down, they talk about the proposed salary and some of the prospective candidates. How many of those people will turn down jobs paying at least six times that much consulting for, say, a defense firm, or lobbying for the next Halliburton?

There’s a reason higher ed is dominated by liberals, and that’s because they’re more interested in affecting a positive change in the world than they are in increasing the size of their bank account.