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johnny9fingerswww.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.
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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Date: 2018-08-25 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-28 04:13 am (UTC)Anyway, my thinking is about an elected position to guide public policy with long-term plans rather than short-term electoral cycles.
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Date: 2018-08-28 05:32 am (UTC)Somoan Chief of State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_le_Ao_o_le_Malo
It is a five-year term now, but it was "elected for life"