- Even men with college degrees are less successful than they used to be. The unemployment rate for recent male college graduates (age 21-24) is 7.1 percent, up from 4.1 percent in 2000. Recent female college graduates, however, have made a full recovery, back to the 4.4 percent unemployment rate they had in 2000.
In Boston, women who graduated from college in the past two years are finding jobs more quickly than their male counterparts, are more likely to be employed full time, and are earning higher salaries, according to a new study by the professional services company Accenture. Nearly 40 percent of female graduates are making more than $40,000 a year, vs. just 16 percent of male grads.
A bunch of overeducated, underemployed men... what could go wrong?
FUN FACT: Under the social structure of feudal Europe, first sons inherited lands and title while additional sons were expected to achieve economic success via battle (actual and formalized). The only training available to them, socially, was warfare. It's not entirely facetious to argue that medieval Europe fought the Crusades because they didn't have COD:Infinite Warfare.
So, you're saying: my chain of inventions, should I ever find myself in medieval Europe, should be: electricity > capacitors > computing > displays > 3D graphics > CoD? I was being cheeky there, but now that I think about it, it's a damn good, if absolutely weird, backstory for a novel. Explore what happens to Europe and the world as a result of them having video games available to everyone. I wish I had the brainpower and mental tenacity.It's not entirely facetious to argue that medieval Europe fought the Crusades because they didn't have COD:Infinite Warfare.
It's almost forgotten to time now, but Patient Zero for steampunk was a charming and thought-provoking (if sterile) novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling called The Difference Engine. It posited an alternate timeline where Babbage and Lovelace got their Analytical Engine working in time to provoke the dawn of computing in the 1840s. 
I've seen worse said in a serious tone. Either way, if this was a joke then my comment is unwarranted, deleting.