Now, I have often been accused of elitism, and with fairly good reason. I am amazed at EJ's behavior, however, because he seems to have missed the fundamental basis for a valid feeling of elitism: that the elites achieve their position solely on merit. While I can't say whether or not his claims of achieving wealth and influence on his own are true, it seems fairly obvious that his kids wouldn't have gotten as far as they have without Daddy's money; if they would have, there would have been no need to spend it. EJ's beliefs are pretty questionable, given that the very basis for them, the superiority of his social class, is entirely based on circumstance.