YC admits a wide range of founders, and gives them excellent access to SVs networks.

This whole class fatalism/cynicism thing is really disheartening to see repeated over and over on the internet as if it’s some fundamental truth, it doesn’t reflect my experience at all. It’s certainly not “sky is blue and water is wet” level certainty.

Your description is dead on. And it's absolutely dystopian, especially for anyone who falls outside of the specific caste described.

But I find it odd that you wouldn't think there's something wrong with it. Essentially large swaths of the population are locked out. That is a huge problem.