What happens when colleges and universities churn out hundreds of thousands of "qualified applicants" for a few tens of thousands of employment opportunities?
Chaos ensues. Some fun reading from Breitbart:
Authors: Antifa Rioters Are the Tech Economy’s College Discards
The black-clothed Antifa activists who are leading the anti-police riots are mostly the discarded, angry college-grade workforce of an increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, say a variety of experts and millennials.
Colleges are producing many “graduates who’ve absorbed a worldview that trains them for “metropolitan elite” job types that turn out to be far scarcer than the graduates competing for them,” writes Mary Harrington, a young writer at Unherd.com. She continues:
The result is a frustrated would-be middle class, treading water in what the writer Venkatesh Rao has called ‘premium mediocre’ lifestyles, a rented simulacrum of a genuinely prosperous existence designed to signal preparedness for the day when, by luck or application, they make it into the dwindling numbers of the real bourgeoisie.
These graduate left-behinds are then stuck in a holding pattern, in precarious housing and employment, as opportunities to take the big steps into adult life — traditionally home ownership, coupledom and kids – recede ever further into the distance. A recent Pew report showed 30% of millennials living with a spouse and child, a fall of 10% on Generation X and a whopping 40% drop on the 1968 generation. That’s America, but ONS data shows the age of first child climbing relentlessly in Britain too — while the birth rate is falling in all cohorts save the over-40s.
They are failing because the investor class is pushing them and their college peers out of good jobs to make room for an imported workforce of cheap and compliant visa workers.
This means Antifa people are now going through the same outsourcing pain and poverty that was imposed on the American working class by the elite’s imposition of mass migration and free trade deals with Mexico and China.
They are not getting what they were promised and are very upset and frustrated. Poor widdle babies. Mommy needs to give them their binky and tuck them back into their crib. I would have thought that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have investigated the employment opportunities for their chosen field before going into hock for several hundred thousand dollars and four years of their lives.
Much more at the site - this is a very in-depth analysis of a very major problem in today's society.
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