John Davis

Out of pure frustration.

Yeah.

Out of frustration.

And disappointment and feeling like that you've been had.

Can I just say before you start, when you're talking there about kind of slightly in Armageddon terms, you know, we're heading for this...

crescendo of some sort, and whether it's an upheaval or an uprising or whatever, it reminds me of what Neil Howe was talking about in the fourth turning, that we are, according to him, we're heading to this crescendo of sorts, and then it all breaks down, we all start again.

So I wonder, is there kind of a correlation between the two?

Right.

Yes, it was.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, man.

Like this is so pertinent to me at the moment where, you know, three of my girls are still in college.

One is finishing masters.

The others are finishing their degrees and they're heading into this world of, you know, do they go into work or do they continue education and do a postgrad or a master's or something, you know?

Yes.

As you've always said before, when you're talking about the paradox of aggregation, you know, the master's degree was the thing that actually made you stand out.

Now, when everyone has a master's degree, no one stands out.

You know, it's a little bit like priority boarding on Ryanair.

You know, when everyone's priority boarding, no one's priority.

So it becomes not useless, but they're not nearly as valuable.