Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by watwut on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:05AM
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Elite in pollitical sense does not equal "someone with college degree".
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by yyyk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:20AM
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Turchin (not in the linked article, but elsewhere[0]) explicitly refers to rise in number of underemployed graduates as a trigger for the creation of a counter-Elite.
[0] http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the-storming-of-the-u-s...
"Elite overproduction, and especially overproduction of the youth with advanced degrees, continues unabated. Our institutions of higher education have been churning out law, MBA, and PhD degrees, many more than could be absorbed by the economy. In a Bloomberg View article published just a few days ago Noah Smith provides the numbers for the overproduction of PhDs (America Is Pumping Out Too Many Ph.D.s)."