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For 20-Somethings, Ambition at a Cost - NYTimes.com
Most of the leaders of tomorrow will be kids whose parents had the money to send them to top schools, pay their bills through an internship lite at one of their friends’ companies, and then helps them land a cushy job at another friend’s company that puts them further ahead from the very beginning than most of the other people their age will go in their entire lives of working long hours for low pay.
Every time I see some 20-something wunderkind who has published 9 books and regularly writes for several big name publications—and then find out they have rich parents, went to top schools their whole lives, and were basically handed all of these opportunities as long as they could string together thoughts coherently and meet a deadline—I just roll my eyes.
Most of the people working all of these dead-end internships are going to be 40 and still working strings of low-paying grunt jobs and wondering where their youth went.