Good article.
Seems like the Corbyn/Sanders movement wasn't so much fuelled by blue collar working class wanting to lift themselves up, but rather by the white collar uni/college graduates wanting to avoid downward social mobility.
The disappointment at the diminishing returns of the expanding higher education was at the core.
Lot of talk about free college & uni, which is a good idea. But didn't hear ANY democrat mention the awesome union apprenticeship system even once in the debates?
@LeoSammallahti huh, this is somehow makes me nod at some places and infuriates at others?
>high-status jobs that its [elite] members believe is their birthright
this. Even higher classes shrink so much that they can't keep their status.
>meritocracy is still good and office cleaner doesn't worth anything
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>machines that govern our lives
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">meritocracy is still good and office cleaner doesn't worth anything"
Where is this claim made? To me the point seems opposite.
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I think that's a rather uncharitable interpretion. Think most people (including non-college educated people on low wages like me) would agree that a person inventing Covid vaccine should earn more than cleaners. Saying this is as someone who worked as a construction site cleaner for few years.
@LeoSammallahti having done a range of physical work (mostly unpaid) and working as a programmer right now I can barely contain my guilt that I can sit on my butt, sip coffee and do what I like when people have to basically sell their bodies for mundane thankless jobs.
Yeah, sure, I studied for this but isn't it fine price to do what you like? Should I be rewarded for this always?
Can see your point and largely agree with it, think Goodhart would agree as well.
But the work you are describing is not comparable to inventing a Covid vaccine, the example Goodhart uses.
@LeoSammallahti @charlag Engineered software and hardware is largely responsible for rapid advances in medicine compared to the clerical and trial work that consumed a lot of time in the past. We can talk about a COVID-19 vaccine in terms of months rather than decades.
@LeoSammallahti @charlag We can even carry it down to the people who ensure the labs are properly cleaned and maintained.