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Ligyron

(8,006 posts)
38. “Ye are many, they are few!”
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:33 PM
Oct 2016

Yes that was quite interesting.

I really like the idea of democratic sovereign wealth funds - provided outright theft by those running them could be avoided. Otherwise it will end up like privatizing social security. Or the Federal Reserve with the banks.

Trying to get the disparate groups within the precariat to realize their commonality is the challenge now. The salariate, or some of them at least, might feel somewhat connected to this struggle, as the author point out - but the proficians here in the USA contain a lot of Trump supporters from my observations.



'While the affluent have access to an education enabling them to liberate the mind and be
innovative, the precariat is relegated to a commodified ‘human capital’ schooling, designed to
prepare them for jobs and habituate them to a life of unstable labour, with plebeian minds.'

and often going into debt to obtain this "education" as well. ITT Tech, etc..

I'm going to go looks for works by this Standing fellow in the references.

Thanks for a good read!

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Historically, they tend to blame the loser as they did with Rmoney. Ligyron Oct 2016 #19
Interesting read... Helen Borg Oct 2016 #25
“Ye are many, they are few!” Ligyron Oct 2016 #38
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I feel very alone right now. livingonearth Oct 2016 #20
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