>so much for our cherished, upper to middle-class institutions.

The same institutions that said everyone needed to go to overpriced college and that shuttering a steel plant in Ohio just for the same steel to be made in even sketchier conditions overseas was an improvement.

They and their peddlers screech about evil billionares and every other aggravating factor because that's easier than looking in the mirror.

This shit ebbs and flows. The institutions did a lot of it to themselves. They'll crash and burn and in 100yr they'll be back again.