>The coders and general contractors who didn't go to university who out earn and out-succeed grads is a real cultural factor, and a big part .of the U.S. red/blue divide.
Hardly. Those are just outliers. Even in spite of the college-educated barista trope, which is a favorite of the media and pundits when making a sweeping generalization about an entire generation, the data has consistently shown that college grads make more than high school grads and this gap has only widened since 2008.
OK, but what's the distribution of college graduate distribution? Is it bimodal? That is, is there a significant fraction of college grads who don't make more than high school grads? If so, those are the ones who are angry.
> college grads make more than high school grads and this gap has only widened since 2008
Problem is that it's not that college grads have made more and become more successful, but that good sustainable jobs for high school grads have completely vanished and a college degree is now the minimum requirement a high school degree once was.
Many people with business/social studies degrees are taking the jobs that were once filled with high school grads, and the high school grads are now just homeless. If I was 80k in debt and working at Star Bucks I'd be pissed too!
However, given the topic is "elite" production, at least some of those people would have got the high earning jobs anyway because university is used as little more than a finishing school by the parents before they parachuted their offspring into a cushy job somewhere inside the government or a large corporation via their contacts network. The actual degree is irrelevant to their earnings.
Hardly. Those are just outliers. Even in spite of the college-educated barista trope, which is a favorite of the media and pundits when making a sweeping generalization about an entire generation, the data has consistently shown that college grads make more than high school grads and this gap has only widened since 2008.