Turchin elite overproduction maps onto elite children and top graduates who want power but have too few places to go, producing social conflict, war, or revolution.
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Turchin elite overproduction maps onto elite children and top graduates who want power but have too few places to go, producing social conflict, war, or revolution.
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"...saying this is that in China today, there are too many graduates of Peking University, Beida, and Tsinghua University. Tsinghua, right? They want to..."
"...the reason is control. The reason is indoctrination. The people who graduate from the Ivy league, and I know cause I went to Yale..."
"...one. So, you become arrogant. You become complacent. So, after you graduate from school, what happens? You can't find any work, because people find..."
"...hate the best student? Because the best student is going to graduate and come back as your principal one day. Why do you hate..."
"...Institute's and then after college they go nine -space to do graduate work and they go on the sitcom Valley become engineering student who..."
"...that you've learned here, that you will learn in university, in graduate school, in science, in life, does not answer a fundamental question. What..."
"...So, let's learn something new. Okay? And then you go to graduate school, and you're taught, everything you learn in university is wrong. Okay?..."
"...good students go to the best universities and then after they graduate they will get the very best jobs. That's the idea. But what..."
"...interested in educating smart people, all you want to do is, graduate rich people, okay? So let's just say this guy doesn't exist. Then..."
"...let in the child who comes from three generations of Harvard graduates, okay, and that's the majority of people who get into Harvard, and..."
"Okay? But you're also competing for graduate school, for law school, for medical school, for scholarships like the Rhodes Scholarship, okay? So Yale, it..."
"...step. And you would think that with the increase in college graduates, America would become a much more equal society. Right? Well, the opposite..."
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