bullshit jobs was a curse
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
I'm not exactly proud of classism, nor do I think that the Professional Managerial Class or whatever you want to call what libs are basically a proxy for in these conversations is like, an anointed chosen of the universe, but I think "all of society shits on professionals" is unsustainable
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it involves academia, how they did not renew his contract, and thus he could never get tenure at that institution
but the fact it was denied him is literally why he changed and he fundamentally can not believe in it
for that door was forever closed to him, and 7 years of his life wasted, and you can get tenure at 10, even if
One: using currency for long-distance impersonal trade goes back much further in prehistory than he thinks. The idea that the state unilaterally invented credit/money is suspect
Cause large universities are huge machines and I would be careful with assuming you know enough based on interactions while studying or even working at a specific department…
Unless you actually want to go high up that is…
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/professional-managerial-chasm
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/on-the-origins-of-the-professional-managerial-class-an-interview-with-barbara-ehrenreich/
Thanks for a thoughtful thread BTW.
- reactionaries
- reactionaries who've adopted a "nostalgic Left" aesthetic, who want to restore the centrality of a specifically white, male, metal-bashing "working class"
Both for the same reason: the PMC is the class base of "woke"
Pretty galling how "leftists" are exactly at odds with Marx
we should probably stick with Marx's definition of the petit bourgeoisie, which like his definition of other classes is based on one's relation to production
But your house isn't a means of production until you get a second one and can rent the first. At the very least, as long as the bank owns most of the principal, it's not your house.
So, anthro profs aren't bullshit: they're bad.