A Glut of Elites? No, It’s Much Worse Than That

Capitalism has a glut of ordinary humans now

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Noahpinion’s The case of the angry history postdoc introduced me to Peter Turchin’s elite overproduction theory. But it’s not just the elites we have a glut of. 

I’m no elite.

I do not have a graduate degree. I earned a bachelor’s degree from a state school. But I think I speak for millions of resentful unemployed or underempl…