The Status Famine of the Youth Movement

We've convinced every young person that they're talented, vastly enlarging the pool of people who expect high status. And if we dig a little bit deeper, historically, the vast majority of people were too worried about survival to worry about status. These days, it's the exact opposite. All this is happening at the same time that the frontier i e potential sources of status is almost entirely exhausted,. leaving the young with no choice but to either start fights or check out.