"The other usage that is common is using "underemployed" to describe people who want to work more hours. I want to work five million hours in a week, but I am constrained by the laws of physics."
You're making up a ridiculous exaggeration that has nothing to do with the issue. Someone may want to and be capable of working full time, yet only able to find part time work. That has nothing to do with constraints of physics.
"After consulting all the experts, and doing some very serious reading on the topic, I just don't believe it has any real semantic meaning."
"Who is this authority that has decided that people's "skills" are "underutilized", and by what standard?"
Just because an issue may have ambiguity or shades of grey at its border cases doesn't mean the phenomenon isn't real.
"But that specific problem is not underemployment, but overeducation."
Wow. Just, wow. That's like pointing at a broken machine or a broken system and saying, "The problem is not that the system should be fixed, but that you should abandon your expectation of it working."
"The other usage that is common is using "underemployed" to describe people who want to work more hours. I want to work five million hours in a week, but I am constrained by the laws of physics."
You're making up a ridiculous exaggeration that has nothing to do with the issue. Someone may want to and be capable of working full time, yet only able to find part time work. That has nothing to do with constraints of physics.
"After consulting all the experts, and doing some very serious reading on the topic, I just don't believe it has any real semantic meaning." "Who is this authority that has decided that people's "skills" are "underutilized", and by what standard?"
Just because an issue may have ambiguity or shades of grey at its border cases doesn't mean the phenomenon isn't real.
"But that specific problem is not underemployment, but overeducation."
Wow. Just, wow. That's like pointing at a broken machine or a broken system and saying, "The problem is not that the system should be fixed, but that you should abandon your expectation of it working."