It’s intentional, it’s a way to brag. They don’t need to at all. There’s a reason why nobody at other companies does that - people at other companies are normal and don’t think they’re gods gift to the world.
I literally did all of that at my state school, and yet despite this my degree name still makes people like you think I’m subhuman because I didn’t get into any top schools (because I don’t have “merit”). I have nothing because CalTech and MIT and Stanford elites have everything.
Most of those people would not be considered geniuses to Caltech educated elites like you.
I personally think ignoring the top 10 students is perfectly fine because they can clearly already manage. The rest of us can’t, but are still considered subhuman by your Bell Curve reading ilk.
Why did you select these institutions in particular?
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Princeton University
Stanford University
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Yale University
Dartmouth College
Brown University
Duke University
Not typical - he's a veteran. I admire that. But he still got in. Therefore, he's superior (nearly intrinsically, on almost every dimension) to 99.5% of the American population and has the privileges that come with it.
The fact that it's considered a epithet is more revealing than anything else.
Him being an elite - someone who knows he's intrinsically superior to everyone else by virtue of selection - is 100% relevant to his opinions being flawed.
Once you're in, you've got the same privilege as everyone else.
Homeless to Yale isn't that different from Cisco-engineer-parents to Yale. You're still at Yale. You're still hobknobbing with the elites, and you are one of them.
He is part of the problem, even if he doesn't get it.