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When there's "blue collar overproduction" due to outsourcing and automation of manufacturing jobs, it's not a big deal because they can just learn to code, but
by jdhn 5y ago
When there's "blue collar overproduction" due to outsourcing and automation of manufacturing jobs, it's not a big deal because they can just learn to code, but when there's "elite overproduction" we need to wring our hands and talk about how this is terrible? Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
- pydry 5y agoThe Economist can't quite bring itself to say that educated proletarians are more of a political threat to the real elites (their target audience) than uneducated proletarians.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThat's pretty much how it is, yes. The class for elite that the article uses is meaningless, a programmer or a sysadmin is not an elite in any meaningful way.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI don't think that is a fair characterization. Instead, dissatisfied proletarians are more of a political threat than Co. Placenta ones. The most dissatisfied and dangerous proletarians are those who thought they were bourgeois and now realize they aren't. It is the mismatch of expectations and reality that drive the dissatisfaction.
- b9a2cab5 5y agoThose "educated" proletarians, at least in my experience, are no more educated than the "trailer trash" they mock, despite their degree. They read Marx in college and start parroting the talking points of choice of their political candidate. You can tell when someone has actually thought through their political opinions when they don't all align on one side of the political spectrum.