The world has shaped itself in a way that everything revolves about money. So when you hear a person whine about money being the means to everything in life, trust me, that person is not in any way mistaken. That is the world we are living in now. It has gone to a point that the wealthy keep on expanding their territory in their favor while the poor remain trapped in their miseries. It is hard to close in on the gap and if there are those people that mange to jump over to the category of the wealthy few; they are some of the luckiest people alive.
Why is it so hard to join the rich-man’s club? There are generally two types of learning institutions in any given country: those that perform poorly and those that do well. Those that perform well have better facilities, better and well trained workforce and generally enough resources for all students in that learning institution. To maintain this high degree of effectiveness that provides a better environment for all students to acquire knowledge, these institutions provide these services at a higher price. This situation locks out the poor who are forced to use the more congested, poorly funded and managed institutions with very thin chances of providing quality education.
If any poor student makes it out of those low standard learning institutions and manages to get tuition funding from the government or sponsorship from people of goodwill, they are yet faced with another problem in the learning institutions that they go to. In a good college, most of the students who have earned a spot there are those who have had the chance to acquire good grades in their lower learning levels. This goes without saying that the majority of these students are from the well-off families. Their culture and lifestyle is different from the few poor students under the sponsorship of the government or nongovernmental source. This puts a lot of psychological strain to these students while trying to fit in with the rich man’s culture hence still prone to poor performance while there.
The problems do not end there. When students are through with their college studies, students from poor backgrounds have slimmer chances of getting a job; or a good job for that matter in a society faced with corruption and nepotism. The established rich few will tend to pick on their kind when seeking services from the fresh graduates.
