# Elite firms 'exclude bright working class' **URL:** \ **Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\ **Created:** [15 June 2015 12:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282 "2015-06-15T12:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 08:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/121 "2015-07-26T08:28:10Z")
On this subject, there is an article in the Guardian suggesting that wealthier parents create a glass floor for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds due to the opportunities they can exploit with connections and wealth. > **[Well-off families create 'glass floor' to ensure children's success, says study](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/26/well-off-families-create-glass-floor-to-ensure-childrens-success-says-study)** > > Children from wealthier families but with less academic ability are 35% more likely to become high earners than more gifted counterparts from poor families ---
**Author:** ![WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/worzelscummage/32/73175_2.png) [@WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/u/WorzelScummage)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 08:55 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/122 "2015-07-26T08:55:19Z")
> Originally posted by @pap > > On this subject, there is an article in the Guardian suggesting that wealthier parents create a glass floor for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds due to the opportunities they can exploit with connections and wealth. > > [Well-off families create 'glass floor' to ensure children's success, says study | Children | The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/26/well-off-families-create-glass-floor-to-ensure-childrens-success-says-study) Literally just read another article along the same lines in the Indy. I can’t help but just think this is life, those with more money will always be more advantaged, the same as those with better genes etc. It’s a pain in the arse, but until we remove the theory of money and any sort of superiority in society, it’ll never happen. ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 10:41 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/123 "2015-07-26T10:41:23Z")
You’re not on about the better genes again, are you? What was it last time…those who go to private school have better genes and are the superior race? Something along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/coxford_lou/32/11_2.png) [@Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Coxford_lou)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 17:03 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/124 "2015-07-26T17:03:55Z")
> **[Report says posh but stupid children earn more than poor but gifted](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174961/The-Triumph-Tim-Nice-Dim-Report-says-posh-stupid-children-end-earning-poor-gifted.html)** > > Children from wealthier families but with less academic ability - epitomised by television character Tim Nice-But-Dim - are 35 per cent more likely to become high earners by the age of 42. ---
**Author:** ![WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/worzelscummage/32/73175_2.png) [@WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/u/WorzelScummage)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 17:17 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/125 "2015-07-26T17:17:40Z")
Oh yeah, I remember you made a very poor point, I countered, then you had a tourrettes attack. Was classic. ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [26 July 2015 19:32 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/126 "2015-07-26T19:32:02Z")
You countered by saying rich people are the best and the rest of us were vermin, or words to that effect. The evidence is there for us all to see. ---
**Author:** ![WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/worzelscummage/32/73175_2.png) [@WorzelScummage](https://www.sotonians.com/u/WorzelScummage)\ **Post date:** [27 July 2015 08:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/127 "2015-07-27T08:28:17Z")
Classic Fatso. ---
**Author:** ![Furball](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/furball/32/64_2.png) [@Furball](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Furball)\ **Post date:** [27 July 2015 10:05 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282/128 "2015-07-27T10:05:31Z")
Just for the record, CS, no one has ever identified a gene or set of genes for intelligence, social status, race or any other social construct. On the ‘glass floor’ argument, the stupidest person I’ve ever taught was from Eton. He went straight from my tutorials to the officers’ mess. [Previous page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/elite-firms-exclude-bright-working-class/2282.md?page=6)