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The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”
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The All-In Podcastx.comBut as Peter Turchin has argued, in his book End Times, the unintended result of the country’s focus on higher education, as opposed to birth or caste, as the new means of constructing an overclass was an “overproduction” of elites that created too many qualified candidates for too few jobs.