The Elite Precariat: The Betrayed Class That Will Decide America’s Next Revolution

When credentials stop working, the educated stop believing. And when the educated stop believing, regimes fall.

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Something is breaking in America. But it’s not where everyone’s looking.

The headlines talk about gig workers and service jobs. But the real danger isn’t the working class struggling to survive. It’s the educated class that did everything right and got nothing for it. The people who built the system and are now being crushed beneath it. The betrayed educated class. The elite precariat.

They’re getting by, but none of it feels permanent. It feels liminal, like at any moment it could all collapse.

This precariat gets no attention. Politicians don’t talk about them. Think tanks don’t study them. The discourse treats their crisis as individual failure rather than systemic collapse.

But there’s a reason this matters more than anyone wants to admit: the working precariat adapts. The elite precariat organizes.