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You make it sound like if you're not #1 in your class you'll be living homeless on the street. This is the exact type of exaggeration the article is discussing.
by Quanticles 11y ago
You make it sound like if you're not #1 in your class you'll be living homeless on the street. This is the exact type of exaggeration the article is discussing. There are many things in between Nobel Prize Winner and unemployed.
- Futurebot 11y agoThere are some left, but those middle positions are 1) no longer safe in the way they were once perceived to be and 2) vanishing faster all the time. The trend shows that "hollowing out" has been occurring for quite a while: http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554 http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554 http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/04/27/how-do-you-fix-the-hollowing-out-of-the-middle-class/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/04/27/how-do-yo... http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/28/how-the-recession-turned-middle-class-jobs-into-low-wage-jobs/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/28/ho... http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/the-hollowing-out-of-americas-middle-class/62330/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/the-holl... The choice is more between "member of various elite / professional jobs" and "Starbucks"; there is no exaggeration.