...And structural-demographic theory predicts over-educated natives who DON'T get jobs end up as overqualified bums unhappy with a discordant system- requesting more benefits, creating more ideological disfunction, sewing discord.
@Peter_Turchin should be required reading.https://twitter.com/metapotat/status/1088663357316628480 …
Yes, I did (years ago anyway). I understand they are underpaid relative to what they would be under the counterfactual with less high skilled immigration. But they are still well paid relative to society as a whole. Crippled is a stretch.
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Continuously dissatisfied because they're negged by their bosses into working for less because their postdoc, tech, and highly skilled but underpaid positions are being given to people willing to work for next to nothing. Everything here is accounted for by Turchin.
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PhD scientists don't even make Turchin's list of elites in the U.S. http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/intra-elite-competition-a-key-concept-for-understanding-the-dynamics-of-complex-societies/ …pic.twitter.com/NO8ccXOvwP
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