The caption is inspired by the origins in Matthew 13:12 of the King James Version of the Bible.
Driving scarcity and craving exclusivity is an acquired prerogative. A false entitlement. The myth floating around is that excluding or leaving behind people actually benefits the people who are doing the excluding. That by keeping them at a distance and putting barriers on participation will work to the advantage of those who do that.
But in a zeitgeist where connection, collaboration and community bring momentum, possibility and the network effect, with the magic of combining ideas and people, making things scarce or exclusive runs counter to that. If at all, we need more creators, more artists, more musicians, more coders, more designers, more scientists, more front line workers, more entrepreneurs, more educators because what they contribute when they get the education and the opportunity benefits everyone. In case that opportunity is deprived, we actually pay for it, we end up being the losers. Being poorer for it.
Depriving others by staking your claim to be exclusive is retrogressive. Agreed you might get the chance to be labeled” Ivy League ” when in effect you are actually putting the breaks on people moving forward. This is no wheat and chaff. There is potential and promise and talent can meet the opportunity, if offered gracefully. In a philharmonic orchestra, there are sax and cello players, drummers and trumpeters, the clarinet and trombone players, the pianists and the horn instrumentalists, while playing from the same hymn sheet, create the magic of harmony because of inclusion and through diversity.
We need to be undoing the toxic myth of exclusion and scarcity.