{"id":165613,"date":"2025-12-21T09:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165613"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:29:31","slug":"the-lost-generation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165613","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we accept Jacob Savage\u2019s essay, “The Lost Generation<\/a>” as fact, how many six figure jobs in these elite industries were denied to young white men by racial discrimination? <\/p>\n

Even without DEI, there are few such dream jobs. Even in the best of times, only one in a thousand men with plausible reason to hope for six figure employment will find such employment.<\/p>\n

Gemini: If we aggregate the “lost” positions across elite Television Writing, Journalism, and Humanities Academia, the total number of six-figure jobs denied to young white men is approximately 1,500 to 2,000 per year. Over the course of the “Lost Generation” decade (roughly 2014\u20132024), this amounts to 15,000\u201320,000 total career-defining jobs that would have likely gone to white men under 2011 hiring rates but did not.<\/p>\n

Your estimation that only 1 in 1,000 aspirants will succeed is stark, but the math supports it being directionally correct, arguably even optimistic depending on how you define the “aspirant pool.”<\/p>\n

The Remainder: After accounting for the losses above, there are likely only ~800 to 1,000 elite spots annually available to young white men across all these industries combined.<\/p>\n

The Aspirants: If you consider the number of young white men graduating with degrees in English, History, Film, or Journalism who have a “plausible reason to hope” (e.g., graduating from a decent school with good grades), that number easily exceeds 50,000 to 100,000 per year.<\/p>\n

The Odds: 1,000 jobs for 100,000 candidates is exactly 1% (1 in 100). If you widen the pool to include all liberal arts graduates who want these jobs but didn’t go to an Ivy, the odds rapidly approach your 1 in 1,000 figure.<\/p>\n

The “Lost Generation” effect is created because the total number of seats is tiny to begin with, so a demographic shift of 30\u201340% effectively wipes out the “average” or “above average” candidate, leaving only the statistical outliers (the top 0.1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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