Policy Premisses bias the Top

Here are some premisses which don’t ring true to me.

1. People always want the bigger job. It seems like plenty of people do not wish to take on the extra step up for a measley ten percent wage. Many workers are very happy to check-in and check-out without nagging responsibilties. Pundits always infer that these types of workers are unhappy. But maybe they are really being reflective in this observation.
2. People would always prefer to live in ‘high productivity’ cities. Writing to you from the Midwest, I can assure you this is not the case. There are some megacities in the US, but I don’t believe the total population of the top ten cities combined surpasses ten percent of the population. That is another way of saying some significant portion of ninety percent of the population is perfectly happy where they are.
3. Everyone wants to go to an Ivy League school. The logic here follows the two examples above. Most of the population do not even consider the Ivy’s and are making meaningful selections of varying degrees of prestige closer to home.

Those who write about the policy may want to be at the tippy top of the corporate ladder and live an expensive life in a high-buck city. And to accomplish these two things, they care deeply about their college pedigree. But they are not most of America.

This seems like an argument to seek out policy people who understand the wants, desires, and aspirations of the rst of America.