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Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, so please don't degrade this place further by posting them. Also, responding to a troll and thus feeding a dumb flamewar is the opposite of what the site guidelines ask. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
The conflict is simple: parents are stimulated to give the best upbringing possible to children - the prize is standing out the crowd - but at the same time it does not make much sense to be #1 in a wasteland.
To eloborate on the education for sale. Think of real estate prices near good high schools for example. Plus the high number of 1%ers in the top universities. I recently watched The Riot Club and thus film in an exagerated way sums it all up.