There might not be guilt, but there’s a fair bit of anger and frustration with the issue of “elite overproduction”, as you’ll be well aware of, the class you’re referring to isn’t a single stratum. Prestige and visibility are the currency, and being say a corporate lawyer at a mid-level PE firm doesn’t carry the same weight as say being …
There might not be guilt, but there’s a fair bit of anger and frustration with the issue of “elite overproduction”, as you’ll be well aware of, the class you’re referring to isn’t a single stratum. Prestige and visibility are the currency, and being say a corporate lawyer at a mid-level PE firm doesn’t carry the same weight as say being a best selling novelist or a tastemaker at NYT. There’s a fair bit of frustration amongst your class with people who drank the cool aid and believed an elite education guaranteed them a dream position setting taste for “the masses”, and instead find themselves after university in yet another highly competitive arena, fighting against equally competitive peers, for only a handful of prestigious vanity positions.
At a certain level of entitlement, money isn’t even that important, prestige is. Why be a PowerPoint jokey at McKinsey when you can have a regular column on Esquire?
That's right. There's a tremendous amount of in-fighting and self-doubt amongst the "new aristocrats." It's far from homogenous in the paths people take even if there's a fairly tight code of conduct for belonging.
There might not be guilt, but there’s a fair bit of anger and frustration with the issue of “elite overproduction”, as you’ll be well aware of, the class you’re referring to isn’t a single stratum. Prestige and visibility are the currency, and being say a corporate lawyer at a mid-level PE firm doesn’t carry the same weight as say being a best selling novelist or a tastemaker at NYT. There’s a fair bit of frustration amongst your class with people who drank the cool aid and believed an elite education guaranteed them a dream position setting taste for “the masses”, and instead find themselves after university in yet another highly competitive arena, fighting against equally competitive peers, for only a handful of prestigious vanity positions.
At a certain level of entitlement, money isn’t even that important, prestige is. Why be a PowerPoint jokey at McKinsey when you can have a regular column on Esquire?
That's right. There's a tremendous amount of in-fighting and self-doubt amongst the "new aristocrats." It's far from homogenous in the paths people take even if there's a fairly tight code of conduct for belonging.