notable how different this is from both classical liberal and neoliberal capitalist rhetoric, which typically emphasizes dynamism and opportunity - the ability to have a better life than your parents had, to change your station, to achieve anything. here by contrast the vision is neo-feudal, static.
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Aaron Rupar
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
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https://fortune.com/2025/02/20/howard-lutnick-sons-brandon-kyle-cantor-fitzgerald-ceo-chairman-dynasty/
Immigrants always start as indentured workers or agricultural laborers or domestic servants.
Their children go to school.
The third generation goes to college.
The family joins the professional class.
They are literally trying to wind back civilizational evolution.
Turn back time like Brexit to a past where the sun never set and the world was theirs to exploit.
Women back in the scullery, the nursery, the patriarchal Church.
Slavery reinstated.
But you can’t go back.
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study …Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History…Commerce…to give their[s] a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture…
(according to Lin-Manuel Miranda...)
I guess I’m now relegated back to studying Politicks.