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Our society is in a period of extreme elite overproduction. With income inequality getting worse and household income not keeping up with rises in prices (over generations, not just right now), a lot of people think the answer is more education and so we end up with more and more people highly educated. As more people end up in the elite class, naturally the people already in elite positions need to find ways to keep people out of elite positions to reduce competition. First they do that by rejecting anyone with "commoner attitudes", then by trying to find ways to reject other people in group of elites. For this purpose, all this junk is perfect. The sign over Auschwitz doesn't say "We need to gatekeep a bit", it says "Abreit macht frei" -- an aspirational positive message at the gate to a death camp.

As an example, my brother is a guy has a masters in English literature and is working as a local newspaper reporter for peanuts -- that's fine, but the fact is our society is creating way too many masters in English literature and there aren't enough positions for them all.

This is one reason why we've got the strange culture we have right now, because there's a lot of jostling for position, people playing musical chairs hoping to get into a seat before the music stops. Arbitrary, contradictory, ever-changing and draconian rules and such start to show up because with so many people there needs to be ways to exclude many of them.