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McDonaldization of Society looks like...

And everyday folx aren't buying into the self-checkout scam.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1012552672265668&id=223649167822693

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Self-checkout is terrible. It will never get better. It should die.
The 40-year-old technology is still awful, and it’s making us worse.

The big lie of meritocracy and class mobility

"Today's DP is a repost but fitting because I think we need reminding that the reason so many bad practices remain in academia is that it represents a chance at class mobility for many.

"Overall, reports and testimonies relating to adjuncts focus on such easily understood narratives of what amounts to what I call Class Shock: the feeling of inadequacy and anger that arises when one’s class aspirations have been trampled underfoot....

...For years, academia has meant a form of class mobility for many (and it has also, at the same time, for many, been a way to maintain class hierarchies) but the rise in adjunct positions and the slashing of tenure lines, along with the increased contempt for the professorial class has meant, in effect, a dwindling of the possibility of entrance into a class position and, consequently, a wider sense of class shock." Yasmin Nair

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156484392617348&id=785977347

***Dedicated to our former (adjunct) employers: Chico State and Butte College, still employing 75% adjuncts to teach their students, still paying their administration astronomical earnings.

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Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis
Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis by Yasmin Nair  For years, academia was a hallowed portal into a magical way of life. Or, to be more realistic, it seemed to be one way towards class mobility that was secure, respectable, and relatively easy to obtain, or so most people though...
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