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What will happen when countries will start producing tons of graduates but not enough white collar jobs? I fear it will create very unhealthy dynamics in the so
by dm8 14y ago
What will happen when countries will start producing tons of graduates but not enough white collar jobs? I fear it will create very unhealthy dynamics in the society.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoRumours tell what's what happened in Cambodia before Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. Too many liberal arts & french classical literature graduates, no viable agriculture to feed the country without external help, help being cut.
- sgt101 14y agoI've never heard this before. I think that pre Khmer Rouge Cambodia had a tiny graduate population <1% and had no issue of agricultural production apart from the intrinsic vulnerability of subsistence farming to crop failure and famine. The disaster of year 0 was not the result of either external aid or poor education, rather it was a political decision supported by regional powers for geo-political ends.
- guard-of-terra 14y agohttp://arkhip.livejournal.com/341078.html http://arkhip.livejournal.com/341078.html This is where I took this from (You can use some translation service) And it states that most of Pol Pot's cabinet were graduates of universities, more than half of them Sorbonne. And then it tells about previous ruler investing in education heavily without then caring about employment of graduates, all this on top of population surge.
- slyall 14y agoYou mean like in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia etc? * http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2012/061312.htm http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2012/061312.htm * http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=201102130832112 http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2011021...
- britta 14y agoThe linked article mentions how that's already happening in China ("young college graduates in China are four times as likely to be unemployed as young people who attended only elementary school, because factory jobs are more plentiful than office jobs"), and this earlier article goes into more detail: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/business/as-graduates-rise-in-china-office-jobs-fail-to-keep-up.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/business/as-graduates-rise...