"All those anonymous guys who actually follow things to their logical conclusion and warn of the impending disaster are in it for the status while us 'moderate' people who've parlayed asking the woke to please slow down a touch are generously holding society together"https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1370081183544053762 …
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Replying to @CryptonMaximus @CovfefeAnon
I won't say he's completely wrong though, after all isn't that what elite overproduction is all about? Not enough status to give out to all elites, so they compete over it.
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Replying to @CryptonMaximus
A country that has almost no reproduction of women over 100 IQ has elite *over*production? I don't think so. We have *decline*
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
That's not elite overproduction, elite overproduction is all the people getting college degrees thinking that entitles them to higher status.
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Replying to @CryptonMaximus
That's credential inflation not elite overproduction.
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Im surprised you're not familiar with the termhttps://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-turchin-how-elite-overproduction-and-lawyer-glut-could-ruin-the-u-s …
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Replying to @CryptonMaximus
We need some clearer terms. "Elite overproduction" as I've understood the term is like in Farewell to Alms where there's downward social mobility due to excess upper class reproduction. Excess sons move downward. This use is the opposite.pic.twitter.com/qWQA8NL6bA
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Opposite and not incisive I think - power *has* expanded radically to more and more stakeholders (all of whom get veto power but no one has power to say "yes" to anything). Observe the 900 person zoom call in the securing of the election. Far more than 100 Senators + 435 Reps.pic.twitter.com/pbhorPLvko
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
The elite overproduction model is used to point out periods of instability which Turchin claims are rapidly approaching. For example look at his writing on lawyers. There are more lawyers graduating than society needs. Lawyers tend to be very political types and ambitious.
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