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Hierarchy of Class&Power Perpetuates Cycle of Alienation, Division, and Hate But America is Great!

Dec 22, 2016 16:30

Neoliberal Bipartisanship: Dems and GOP Can Both Continue to Screw The Nation Equally with an Orange Human Face.

The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy
The main source of meaning in American life is a meritocratic competition that makes those who struggle feel inferior.

What is happening to America’s white working class?
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blackjedii December 23 2016, 19:03:49 UTC

see the "higher education gateway to a better life" is double funny to me because:
1) most bachelor's degrees are now oversaturated to the point of uselessness
2) colleges have REALLY lowered standards in a lot of ways and also increased tuition / admissions because $$$$
3) it is not what you graduate with but who you know - aka it is better to get drinking buddies in high places than to have a shiny resume

so either way

we screwed

tilmon December 24 2016, 04:53:20 UTC

Why do these journalists keep writing as if, for a lot of people, getting a college degree is anything more than a ticket to a lifetime of undischargable debt? Oh, right, because it worked out fine for them, and they don't know the sort of people who get degrees but are unable to make those degrees pay off because they lacked the ability to work unpaid as interns first/the connections to be introduced to hirers.

And on the right-wing side, I'm seeing more and more justification of "meritocracy" through victim-blaming. Oh, those people made "wrong" choices, so now they deserve to be living on the streets starving in their old age.

amw December 24 2016, 11:12:28 UTC

Interesting articles. I commented on the education thing under pocky's post, so here I want to talk co-ops ( ... )

amw December 24 2016, 11:13:16 UTC

(continued from above ( ... )

evildevil December 25 2016, 13:38:12 UTC

I am no expert, but I have read a few things here and there and I think the problem is that there is a lack of data and cooperative projects to allow for the cooperative movement to gain momentum to create an alternative ( ... )

evildevil December 25 2016, 13:39:40 UTC

"In the tech industry that's usually a self-important nerd who truly believes he is smarter than everyone around him, so God forbid anyone else tell him what to do ( ... )

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