Why do people go to the Kennedy school?

Ok, folks in my program - I like to call it, rather than the officially titled, "Mid-career" program - that it's a mid-life crisis program. I had been stumped why there were sooo many folks in my class who were pure capitalist business people and on the application you had to prove that you had at least 7 years of experience in public service. Whazup?

So I've been thinking of two reasons:

1. The K school has a puny endowment - it's a relatively newer school at Harvard, and its alumni had been working in the non-profit and gov't realms and not making the big bucks to donate.
2. People can't get into the Business School, so they apply to the K school - which I think is easier to get into - I'm always stumped why so many people take uber classes over there. Uh, why don't you just cross the river (the HBS is, indeed, across the Charles River) and don't come back.

I've just become more and more sickened by the study group talk I overhear - about marketshares this and venture capital that. The worst is this social enterprise b.s. - which has as its guise this very progressive veneer but just appears to be another excuse for more capitalist f'ing over of the poor at its worst, or at its best, not changing the system that is causing poverty in the first place.

Whine, bitch, complain - so you may ask, why did I come here?