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In reply to the discussion: KRUGMAN: The Fake Skills Shortage [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I've lost friends because they went into business school and later became downright toxic in their views of the working class. The thing is, they don't see it as an anti-labor, or anti-whatever issue: It's simply the the way the world is, according to what they've been taught.
I agree about the numbers fixation as well. Where I work ( and comparing notes with my peers in other companies ) everything is a crisis that requires maximum effort to get by, with what looks good right now the sole concern, even if it only makes it harder on somebody else ( or even themselves ) later on. It never occurs to them it's a fools errand. It's just the way the system works, and the one that spins the hamster wheel fastest is the bestest.
Vile maggots, every last one of them.