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They’re defining having an elite background as having a parent with a post-graduate degree… which seems like a stretch to me. Post graduate degrees are not tha
by nostromo 4y ago
They’re defining having an elite background as having a parent with a post-graduate degree… which seems like a stretch to me.
Post graduate degrees are not that special anymore and they often don’t earn you much additional money, let alone power.
- barry-cotter 4y agoTwenty or thirty years ago a graduate degree was very unusual. Now it’s clearly not a marker of elite status. Things have changed.
- tgv 4y agoThat by itself totally explains the trend. There were enough intelligent people back then, but they just didn't go to college. This is alarmist, virtue-signalling, click and rage bait journalism.