https://newdiscourses.com/2021/05/bourgeois-overproduction-problem-fake-elite/

Also, Thomas Sowell covers the topic of college-educated failures and their impact on social cohesion in his book “Intellectuals & Society.” Apparently, it's a known phenomenon.

This ties in handily with pushing too many kids into academic educations and the resulting fallout - which is that many, many jobs in the skilled trades are going vacant presently because we haven't stressed vocational training for at least the past several decades. That said, it's always been an upper class meme that there is something lesser, even shameful about working with your hands and so it makes sense that people interested in social mobility would pursue academic training rather than vocational.

Who would have thunk that an overabundance of educated people would result in a weakened, fractured society? That empowering people through education would lead them to strive for "power over" rather than simple being empowered. Perhaps we should be teaching some humility as well.