1. Counter-point: the "elite overproduction" framework is a blaming the victim narrative that obfuscates the larger context of declining social mobility, failure of circulation of elites, rise of the Failsons & failed attempt to diversify historically exclusionary institutions. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1364943822405459973 …
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4. The circulation of elites has broken down in the last 50 years in a host of ways: declining social mobility, rising life expectancy among rich whites (creating a gerontocracy), institutional sclerosis, rising dynasties (the Bushes, the Trumps, etc).
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5. A lot of elite institutions that owe their status to being exclusionary (Ivy League, national media) have faced political pressure to diversify but that cuts against their historical formation as gate-keepers & reality of declining opportunities in many fields.
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6. I think its fair to say, as Matt does here, that "overproduction of elites" is flipside to structural stuff I talk about. But polemically "overproduction" frame is too often used to justify "these are just over-educated whiners" rhetoric. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1364962524794339335 …
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That sounds like a pretty big claim, that it worked for that period.
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I said rocky!
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