If you want to know how fucked the Anglo-Saxon nations are...

[johnny9fingers]

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty

We really hate our clever and educated people, don't we? We pay them next-to-nothing to impart information or teach, and then quite rightly, ignore everything they may want to say, because they are essentially worthless people in a capitalist society. They must be worthless; they don't earn much, after all.

Knowledge is worthless. Expertise is worthless. Sense is worthless. The only thing that is worth anything is the medium of exchange.

It is right about now that I become the first communist democratic monarchist of modern times.

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[peristaltor]

My folks (all five of them; long stories) finally asked me why I drive transit. The boat job they could understand; that's at least fun. But transit? Buses!?

I just told them my hourly wage. All five were teachers; they were pretty appalled, seeing as I was making double per hour what they did.

And they earned better than adjuncts, since they taught primary ed, and were at least guaranteed full time and bennies.

[johnny9fingers]

This is shaming to any academic system.

[peristaltor]

Both shaming and shameful… but quite profitable.

Where is Henry George when we need him?