There is an interesting podcast about this on the Ezra Klein show: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/64086855?autoplay=true https://www.sti

There is an interesting podcast about this on the Ezra Klein show: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/64086855?autoplay=true https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/64086... Roughly the point is that while "the working elite" is much harder to be repelled by; it is still a problem that many tasks in society that could before be done by a medium educated middle class, is now done by a few highly educated people plus a swath of people with no education. This causes the second group to have less part and prestige in their work, while the first group gets alienated from their own work, by being forced into the few fields that allow one to reach the 1%.