Is Academia a Ponzi Scheme?

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Late Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

The life of a professor sounds like the best dream, and for a lucky few, it is. Once you get that tenured position of happiness, there really isn’t much to complain about. But that’s not the life of a significant percentage of those teaching college classes.

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With the expansion of the reserve labour force, everything is a Ponzi scheme. But that’s not to say we can’t use our labour for ourselves.

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