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The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
We are running up against a fundamental limit both in terms of the capabilities of the people being herded into colleges and the number of high-skill jobs that will be available for them if they manage to graduate. The problem is that the skills ladder is not really a ladder at all: it is a pyramid, and there is only so much room at the top.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicztheamericanscholar.org
The result is that new college graduates have increasingly been forced into relatively unskilled jobs—often displacing nongraduates in the process.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
