Yeah, a mob with a guillotine has never achieved anything. Everyone knows that.
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In a capitalist society we are constantly judging and being judged as having moral character based on our consumption. Pierre Bourdieu called this “distinction” and argued that the objects we buy and surround ourselves with represent “taste” that demonstrates and furthers class positioning in a capitalist society. Under capitalism, these objects carry great meaning and a person can communicate complex ideas and social information simply by how they hold a specific consumer good in their hand. Bourdieu argued that class struggle is also a “classification struggle”.
Not only is this an out of touch and irresponsible expectation to put on high school kids, but if FOSS was nothing but a box ticking exercise for unpaid child labour, then the proportion of abandoned and unfinished projects would be worse than it is for Netflix Originals.
Professional training courses and certifications: all scams.
Expecting people to do unpaid spec work when they’re 16: not scams.
A bad one, and what it more broadly represents, can severely limit your freedom of movement.
What do you need a wall for when you have bad credit scores and drug possession charges?
Five years of experience straight out of finishing a four year bachelor’s degree means that you need to start grinding for your career when you’re still a high school kid. To put it extremely politely: this is an unrealistic expectation.
Yet that’s generally what needs to be done. You couldn’t borrow one of William Randolph Hurst’s printing presses to print your commie newspaper back in 1902. Perhaps we shouldn’t expect a commie chat show to ‘win’ the YouTube algorithm and beat all of the fascist and reactionary chat shows that have dominated political discourses on the platform.
Yes we have both exaggerated. It’s between 6 and 9 years for the numbers published in 2021 (an odd time). It likely does not include early symptoms occurring during that period preventing or limiting the things retired people would have generally expected to have been able to do in decades past. Since its a range it reduces some of the problems in identifying the mythical average person, but not entirely. Of course a great many people will fall outside of that range and decline much earlier, with some doing so much later. Etc etc etc.
None of this really matters though. People should be able to retire earlier like generations past, and slightly less death or sickness happening at a certain age is not a good reason to change the retirement age. It’s just governments who want to keep or give out tax cuts looking for ways to reduce services.
That stat makes it even worse! The Danish government is shovelling its people from the workplace to the care home with no time for anything in between.
More bike lanes in Denmark = fewer kids getting run over by cars = higher average life expectancy since fewer people die when they are very young. Therefore, no pensions for 69 year olds. Amazing galaxy brain stuff.
The bit at the end about the retirement age being raised in France is also infuriating. It just “had to be pushed through parliament by President Emmanuel Macron without a vote”. It had to be! There was no alternative.
Oh, “it’s giving” is just another way of saying “it’s like” or “it’s akin to” or “this is reminiscent of”. This seems very rad. Sorry, it’s giving very rad.