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This passage from my first book, Twilight of the Elites, seems pretty relevant as an explanation of this college admissions scam. Basically, meritocracy as a guiding social ethos is self-subverting. 
Another thing that jumped out at me. The parents involved are quite wealthy, but not the *super* rich. They can’t just write a $15 million check to pay a legal bribe to get their kids in. They are products of what I call “fractal inequality”
