American higher education has helped foreigners much more in the last few decades than it ever helped American citizens prior to and during that time.
Many of these new global elites Friedman refers to, CEOs, most of them now foreign nationals, were trained in American elite higher educational centers, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, etc. My old alma mater, BU is a locus classicus of foreign grooming for the highest posts in public and private entities, mostly now posted elsewhere.
Some of his commenters inadvertently make my point, eg the man who works for an agile global corporation where execs compete from institutions of higher learning all over the world.....
The Credential Society explains in a thumbnail sketch, where these institutions originally came from, and explains to some extent, in my judgment, how this whole credential system got so out of hand, and also by implication, became, and remains, (perhaps Collins would say I read too much into his narrative) so counterproductive for Americans themselves.
Re Friedman's story about what CEOs now require above average in the global labor market, Collins shows quite clearly how it was never really a meritocracy toward the top anyway.
Re Friedman's 'neither in nor out' but 'good better best' criteria, as one can see good better best are discussed in the same breath with the critical term 'cost'.
One has only to watch Michael Lewis' 2012 baccalaureate address at Princeton, and read Liar's Poker, to see that something has always been terribly unmeritocratic about Wall Street Society;
much less the chains of directorates and musical chair positions among CEOs which Faux chronicles in The Global Class War ,
which, as I have commented recently, occur across industries,
regardless of so called meritocratic or technocratic principles.
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