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The article cites the election of Trump and Brexit as evidence for too many people having degrees that they aren't able to fully utilize, supposedly confirming a prediction from Turchin in 2010, but... as far as I've read, neither of those things were driven by the advanced-degree-holding crowd. The "angry populist masses" are the ones without college education!

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It was Michael Gove, the education minister and Vote Leave figurehead, who said in 2016: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts"[0].

This line of thinking is beautifully conveyed in a satirical drawing by Will McPhail that appeared in the 2017-01-02 issue of The New Yorker with the caption "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?".[1]

Another satirical drawing from 2016 seems to capture a similar pathology, where the character starts by saying "I want things to be different".[2]

[0] https://www.london.edu/think/who-needs-experts

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/06/trump-cart...

[2] https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984

Even more smugly you have to turn to an objective example instead of the subjective insanities of economics and sociology that Elites™ force down our throat. For the record your pals are starting to hire Diverse™ pilots…

[1] https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-coronavirus-pa...

> The "angry populist masses" are the ones without college education

Portland's seemingly endless supply of white, elitist anarchists would like a word with you.

> The "angry populist masses" are the ones without college education!

The “angry populist masses” are (one set of) the people being driven by propaganda, not the people driving it.

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