3b — New Right explanations of age inequality

Question 1

piers morgan

Answer 1

The Underclass and the snowflakes
Dennis and Erdos: decline in values in younger generation

Young people earn less because they are SNOWFLAKES: self-centred, unresilient, oversensitive

Young ppl refuse to take jobs in industries they disapprove of, or difficult jobs. E.g. not being a farmer bc physical exercise/vegan. No backbone

Unemployment + low wages in youth = individual failings within new “woke” youth

Question 2

murray and herrnstein and age

Answer 2

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Some have biological 🧬 predisposition to aggressiveness, impulsiveness, and violence

—> increased likelihood of crime if not curbed by sufficient socialisation (nuclear family w strict father)

cognitive elite with high IQ more intelligent, better jobs, better at raising children

Low IQ linked with poverty, crime, family issues, welfare dependency

as cognitive elite and underclass intermarry and stick together they are further divided. each new younger generation is more stupid and more poor.