{"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":"<p>If we accept Jacob Savage\u2019s essay, &#8220;<A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/the-lost-generation\/\">The Lost Generation<\/a>&#8221; as fact, how many six figure jobs in these elite industries were denied to young white men by racial discrimination? <\/p>\n<p>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<p>Gemini: If we aggregate the &#8220;lost&#8221; 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 &#8220;Lost Generation&#8221; 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<p>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 &#8220;aspirant pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The Aspirants: If you consider the number of young white men graduating with degrees in English, History, Film, or Journalism who have a &#8220;plausible reason to hope&#8221; (e.g., graduating from a decent school with good grades), that number easily exceeds 50,000 to 100,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t go to an Ivy, the odds rapidly approach your 1 in 1,000 figure.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Lost Generation&#8221; 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 &#8220;average&#8221; or &#8220;above average&#8221; candidate, leaving only the statistical outliers (the top 0.1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we accept Jacob Savage\u2019s essay, &#8220;The Lost Generation&#8221; as fact, how many six figure jobs in these elite industries were denied to young white men by racial discrimination? Even without DEI, there are few such dream jobs. Even in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=165613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165615,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165613\/revisions\/165615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}