Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

scott-fryxell.github.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–27 of 27 posts

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#21

Post by sfryxell »

parpfish wrote: post #17

The article describes these elites as arrogant overachievers that expect the lions share of success. However, from the “elite” kids I’ve met I find it far more likely that they are suffering from imposter syndrome and will do anything to chase external validation to soothe it. The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim

Thats definitely how the article from the times reads. What is the point of higher learning, it's a gross mutation for it to become an ever tightening noose of status scarcity

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#23

Post by hamster77 »

magicink81 wrote: post #19
golergka wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's usually how you get bloody revolutions on your hands. French revolutionaries and Bolsheviks were not factory workers — they were disgruntled lawyers and journalists.

Yup, and right on time we have a fresh update to their revolutionary ideology into which a majority of people with degrees have been indoctrinated.

Marxism is not fresh

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#24

Post by jauntywundrkind »

elliotec wrote: post #8
jauntywundrkind wrote: post #3

> We can use AI right now as another boogey man to light fires of desperation under the ass's of our over achievers. Stellar point. And I think this is where most ink and tears will be spilled, as we focus up up up to the archons on capital that entrap us so. And yet. What's really notable to me is that we don't have smart amazing interesting people in the world who kind of float along, with cheap rent & interesting…

How much do you know about "the world"? That's a serious generalization. Lots of cities out there, lots of people. Maybe it's the systems that prevent us from seeing their efforts.

Precisely part of what's so horrifying about today is that bigger and bigger companies come to overarch and dominate the scene. There's less and less variety of world left as the largess-ness of the world sucks everyone into itself.

You're welcome to throw your doubting shade. Generally though I appreciate it if you wanted up & say something, make some conjecture of your own, rather than just belittling those who do offer up what view & perspective they have.

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#25

Post by deepfriedchokes »

parpfish wrote: post #17

The article describes these elites as arrogant overachievers that expect the lions share of success. However, from the “elite” kids I’ve met I find it far more likely that they are suffering from imposter syndrome and will do anything to chase external validation to soothe it. The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim

> The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim.

Why not both? No one is born abusive.

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#26

Post by golergka »

hamster77 wrote: post #23
magicink81 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, and right on time we have a fresh update to their revolutionary ideology into which a majority of people with degrees have been indoctrinated.

Marxism is not fresh

There's a new update to it.

Re: The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh

#27

Post by gaws »

parpfish wrote: post #17

The article describes these elites as arrogant overachievers that expect the lions share of success. However, from the “elite” kids I’ve met I find it far more likely that they are suffering from imposter syndrome and will do anything to chase external validation to soothe it. The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim

> The children coming from these status driven institutions are less villain and more victim

Oh, no! Will anyone think of the rich kids?

Post reply on HN