You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup.
I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo it on a dot com startup.
The sports clubs were bought out by private equity and charge large fees.
The local park is rented to the same private sports teams 7 days a week.
The local elementary closed it's playground. (been open for 40 years, installed gates 5 years ago)
Only scouts at the church remains, and it has become oddly focussed on getting fairly rich kids into college.
The cuts include workers in senior director and vice president roles, as well as managers, product developers, product managers, program managers, software developers, site reliability developers, technical analysts, user experience developers and others.
They are in no-way laying off call center employees, they are laying off tens of thousands of the most highly paid US workers.
And yes the numbers of H1Bs granted in 2025 is relevant. You don't layoff 20% of your 100,000+ people workforce all of a sudden 'cos March went badly.
The schools studied in that paper are free, or close to free. Not $50,000 per anum
And I don't think OP was suggesting it's the quality of education that affects outcomes in attendees of expensive private high schools.