The elite is defined by who or what “the people” are striving to get”
Well, I guess my problem with this idea is the fact that I question the implication that a majority of frum Jews are striving for this. Who are “the people” to whom you refer? Not every frum Yid is Yeshivish frum, not all Yeshivish frum people want to necessarily redt shidduchim to boys who want solely to learn all day and not be mefarneis their wives and children (and they don’t consider them to be the “elite”), and not all Jewish people are frum altogether.