Ivy League-to-consulting elites in their 40s are the most AI-disoriented, turkey-curve edition
4KTV · x · 2026-10-28
The author observes that the most scared people in his network are those with the most prestigious résumés: Ivy League → Bain/BCG/banking → Harvard/Stanford MBA → high-income tech or hedge funds/PE. Many were unexpectedly laid off in their early 40s, now 3-4 years into job hunts under high burn-rate lifestyles. The accompanying chart invokes Taleb's Thanksgiving turkey from The Black Swan: linearly rising wellbeing until a sudden revision of belief.
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