Gotta be said:

1) You are elite. Of course I approve of elitism, but elitists who expect everybody to achieve the same standard, live their lives in exasperation and die embittered. ;-) Yes, the rest of the world is not up to your standards. But they're still human beings.

2) University costs have sky-rocketed, especially since 2000. Those lucky enough to attend school in the 1980s are the same lucky ones who bought houses and had their debts eroded by inflation, which now is the devil. These days it's not an uphill battle they face, without a serious scholarship it's a cliff for most people.

3) Money is tight, because the plutocrats need more. Tight $ in the community = tight $ in small business so they're not keen to employ Joey from down the street over summer because the $ is needed to fix the roof. Henry Ford's idea was that if you pay staff well, they can afford your product and money flows around the community and comes back to you anyway. These days business expects customers to be rich and staff to be on minimum wage, but where are these rich customers to come from if most families in the community struggle?

4) Akron sounds like a nice place. There are some nice places left, but if things descend to chaos then nobody is immune.