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mycomancy posted:Sure am glad I finally got out of academia. That entire realm of life is dying and it probably should die. Sucks though, I wanted to go back for a Classics degree when I retired. many of academia's problems could be solved pretty easily if you could simply eliminate administrative staff positions and political boards of governors/regents without warning or cause. make dean a singular word again, etc. but many of academia's other problems are rooted well outside of academia. examples include unreasonable expectations of universities as the sole gateway for economic opportunities and the systematic ratfucking of primary and secondary education leaving most people totally unprepared for what they have been led to believe is their only hope of something approaching a stable financial life. no one should be required to study at the university level in order to live outside of economic precarity, that's extremely r-worded eliminating programs like these from public universities should lead to a bunch of poo poo just pretend i bothered to put bracket redacted bracket etc. to the MBA-wielding hatchetmen. but even the idea that public value can exist outside of something that can be expressed in market share or future earnings expectations is haram.
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https://twitter.com/EastBayTimes/status/1704487390587334811?s=20
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50bps today?
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mycomancy posted:When I was trying to organize a faculty into a union a few years back, we sent out a survey to the faculty with the blunt question "at this time, do you support a faculty union? Yes/no". IME the engineering school always torpedoed any unionization drive/vote, whether for graduate student workers or staff
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captainbananas posted:many of academia's problems could be solved pretty easily if you could simply eliminate administrative staff positions and political boards of governors/regents without warning or cause. make dean a singular word again, etc. it is genuinely shocking how incredibly bloated university administrations are. you can't really convey this to anyone who hasn't interacted directly with it. not like being a student or something, but trying to work with/within it you could immediately slash every single administration's staff by half and it would still be turbo bloated
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Scarabrae posted:50bps today? "Hawkish Pause" is what hear thrown around this morning
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theres always going to be a group of turds that probably arent worth wasting time on organizing because of how reactionary they are, but nursing overall should be organized and attempted to anyway its a vital organ of any society
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SKULL.GIF posted:it is genuinely shocking how incredibly bloated university administrations are. you can't really convey this to anyone who hasn't interacted directly with it. not like being a student or something, but trying to work with/within it also applies to most large Institutions that receive any amount of public funding. obviously Hospitals, but also even the Cultural Sector in Europe is overrun with overpaid admins, with dwindling salaries and stable jobs for employees that actually produce culture like musicians, artists, etc
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HallelujahLee posted:theres always going to be a group of turds that probably arent worth wasting time on organizing because of how reactionary they are, but nursing overall should be organized and attempted to anyway its a vital organ of any society Jane Mcalevey has written extensively about organizing nursing unions in incredibly hostile environments for Christ's sake
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webcams for christ posted:also applies to most large Institutions that receive any amount of public funding. obviously Hospitals, but also even the Cultural Sector in Europe is overrun with overpaid admins, with dwindling salaries and stable jobs for employees that actually produce culture like musicians, artists, etc there does not exist a large institution that does not receive copious amounts of public funding whether that is in positive currency flows or tax rebates/credits/etc. but this poo poo is just as true in the "for profit" world. early-era microsoft people used to mock the insanely complex giza-sized corporate pyramid of IBM. doubt they're distinguishable now. the phenomenon is a byproduct of misaligned incentive structures at different levels (individual, group, division, organization, etc.) of action within the organization-as-system. to the best of my knowledge it is never self-correcting outside of organizational death, and must always be fought against in a dialectic not unlike your bog-standard reactionary boug
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SKULL.GIF posted:it is genuinely shocking how incredibly bloated university administrations are. you can't really convey this to anyone who hasn't interacted directly with it. not like being a student or something, but trying to work with/within it The previous university I worked at went from 71% academic staff (full time equivalent) to 54% in 5 years, then stopped publishing those statistics.
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It's not a particularly deep analysis, but I'm a professor now myself and so was my dad, and just comparing our jobs and their history directly, it's stark how much of a precarious job-training program academia has become. Not that it was rainbows and pure before, and there are some big obvious ways thing have improved (mostly on the bigotry front), but I think if we tried the whole "university is about broadening your horizons not jobs" song and dance now it'd go over like a lead balloon. Students are too on edge and precarious to put up with that posturing, and professors young enough to know tenure is over as a concept can't believably sell it.
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webcams for christ posted:Jane Mcalevey has written extensively about organizing nursing unions in incredibly hostile environments for Christ's sake this is a good read
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Scarabrae posted:50bps today? consensus seems to be pointing toward a pause
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captainbananas posted:there does not exist a large institution that does not receive copious amounts of public funding whether that is in positive currency flows or tax rebates/credits/etc. but this poo poo is just as true in the "for profit" world. early-era microsoft people used to mock the insanely complex giza-sized corporate pyramid of IBM. doubt they're distinguishable now. yeah you're right. last night I learned about the job/field-of-study "Wirtschaftsinformatiker" that curiously only exists in D-A-CH and grew increasingly annoyed as I read the wiki
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Dolash posted:It's not a particularly deep analysis, but I'm a professor now myself and so was my dad, and just comparing our jobs and their history directly, it's stark how much of a precarious job-training program academia has become. Not that it was rainbows and pure before, and there are some big obvious ways thing have improved (mostly on the bigotry front), but I think if we tried the whole "university is about broadening your horizons not jobs" song and dance now it'd go over like a lead balloon. Students are too on edge and precarious to put up with that posturing, and professors young enough to know tenure is over as a concept can't believably sell it. It owns how at the exact same time window that higher education has become a jobs training program, it's also become insanely expensive. Almost a 1:1 correlation.
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Dolash posted:It's not a particularly deep analysis, but I'm a professor now myself and so was my dad, and just comparing our jobs and their history directly, it's stark how much of a precarious job-training program academia has become. Not that it was rainbows and pure before, and there are some big obvious ways thing have improved (mostly on the bigotry front), but I think if we tried the whole "university is about broadening your horizons not jobs" song and dance now it'd go over like a lead balloon. Students are too on edge and precarious to put up with that posturing, and professors young enough to know tenure is over as a concept can't believably sell it. yeah this is a perfect encapsulation of a critical problem with academia and its role in the modern social and economic life around the world that categorically cannot be solved within academia itself. i mean i guess all of academia could just give everyone the double deuces and re-harded the walls of the ivory tower, forever rededicated to being a place to hide away the third or fourth failson of familial wealth empires but they wont because the money is better under the current model
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net work error posted:Just think of the potential bagholders that never were lol permabulls are such freakish parasites. They'll never admit it but every last one of these cattle know that the only way to get Number to continually go up is to add more and more suckers to the pyramid.
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captainbananas posted:there does not exist a large institution that does not receive copious amounts of public funding whether that is in positive currency flows or tax rebates/credits/etc. but this poo poo is just as true in the "for profit" world. early-era microsoft people used to mock the insanely complex giza-sized corporate pyramid of IBM. doubt they're distinguishable now. it is true everywhere because the system is wholly integrated and interconnected now. for a long time institutions like education, or the military, were still significantly characterized by their historical origins in the feudal era and existed as quasi-independent systems, but since the 70's and especially 90's have been completely absorbed into Capital as a system, with the high bourgeoisie at the core. for example, since the funding process is simply not sensitive to methodological critique, it has proven almost impossible to make substantive progress through struggle within the system on the replicability crisis in the behavioral and medical sciences, because the methods that produced the crisis are the methods that produce results which serve the purpose of the system: to reinforce and maintain the stability of Capital.
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does anyone have the post from the previous economics thread about how American bullish optimism is cancerous and toxic? I thought I'd saved it but I can't find the file.
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webcams for christ posted:Jane Mcalevey has written extensively about organizing nursing unions in incredibly hostile environments for Christ's sake Wow look at all those chuds. Should have organised a real leftist profession (programming)
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Dolash posted:It's not a particularly deep analysis, but I'm a professor now myself and so was my dad, and just comparing our jobs and their history directly, it's stark how much of a precarious job-training program academia has become. Not that it was rainbows and pure before, and there are some big obvious ways thing have improved (mostly on the bigotry front), but I think if we tried the whole "university is about broadening your horizons not jobs" song and dance now it'd go over like a lead balloon. Students are too on edge and precarious to put up with that posturing, and professors young enough to know tenure is over as a concept can't believably sell it. yeah it seems like the view has shifted on university from education to a job pipeline, and with that came a shift of mindset from student to customer, which then required managers (+ managers + mangers ——> i.e. administrators) to complain to, hence a lot of the admin ballooning you see this with college rankings and with what prospective students (and their parents) want — nice new dorms, state of the art recreational facilities, a good sports program (games to go watch + ~school spirit~ which develops school identity/pride leading to future donations), tons of support staff, lots of activities to do outside of class, and on and on and on it's not like staffing levels went up for no reason
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SKULL.GIF posted:does anyone have the post from the previous economics thread about how American bullish optimism is cancerous and toxic? I thought I'd saved it but I can't find the file. I'd also like this article. I got shouted out of the MtG thread because a couple cardboard hoarders couldn't understand what "toxic optimism" means.
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consigning entire population segments / professions to un-organizable "chuds" is neocalvanism
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gradenko_2000 posted:quick update to this story from July Please buy my new book that goes into detail about how I did not in fact, get owned.
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Zodium posted:it is true everywhere because the system is wholly integrated and interconnected now. for a long time institutions like education, or the military, were still significantly characterized by their historical origins in the feudal era and existed as quasi-independent systems, but since the 70's and especially 90's have been completely absorbed into Capital as a system, with the high bourgeoisie at the core. for example, since the funding process is simply not sensitive to methodological critique, it has proven almost impossible to make substantive progress through struggle within the system on the replicability crisis in the behavioral and medical sciences, because the methods that produced the crisis are the methods that produce results which serve the purpose of the system: to reinforce and maintain the stability of Capital. webcams for christ posted:consigning entire population segments / professions to un-organizable "chuds" is neocalvanism also but if i am honest about my own biases i am not sure if police are salvageable
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captainbananas posted:also but if i am honest about my own biases i am not sure if police are salvageable I just checked, they don't actually have souls so they categorically don't count
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gradenko_2000 posted:this one would come preinstalled with the phone if i had to guess, it would do some acorns type of thing because they have a savings account now on top of the credit card. every time you use the credit card or apple pay you'd get maybe 1% or 1.5% put into the investment account with predefined plans with various levels of risk to select from. any theoretical gains most users would have would be offset by the incurred spending debt and apple/gs would still make money.
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captainbananas posted:
police never count they're class enemies and traitors
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webcams for christ posted:consigning entire population segments / professions to un-organizable "chuds" is neocalvanism
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Nursing is one of the few career paths left where your education will actually lead to a middle class wage and not just debt peonage, hence why it’s flooded with folks who probably wouldn’t be there if they had a different path available. And yeah education is in total free fall. I think the graduation ceremony for an MBA class should be immediate arrest and hard labor. Optimize and synergize digging potatoes bitch
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 15:23 |
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webcams for christ posted:I just checked, they don't actually have souls so they categorically don't count username/post combo is good enough for me. sold. but also, HallelujahLee posted:police never count they're class enemies and traitors
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Yup. Programmers, systems engineers, podcast hosts, mom and pop landlords, these are the modern day factory workers and coal miners (both chuds) and are therefore the only valid non-chud profession
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DaysBefore posted:Yup. Programmers, systems engineers, podcast hosts, mom and pop landlords, these are the modern day factory workers and coal miners (both chuds) and are therefore the only valid non-chud profession This but unironically
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DaysBefore posted:Yup. Programmers, systems engineers, podcast hosts, mom and pop landlords, these are the modern day factory workers and coal miners (both chuds) and are therefore the only valid non-chud profession I, too, don't understand what the lumpenproletariat are.
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:White people aren't mentioned at all because they're the baseline for medical treatment This is the tragedy of modern medicine and something I am continuously astonished hasn't been fixed yet. They've known about it for decades...
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anonumos posted:This is the tragedy of modern medicine and something I am continuously astonished hasn't been fixed yet. They've known about it for decades... biomedicine gives us access to some of the best material analysis in health/life outcomes, and enables us to quantify the pain and suffering that inequalities produce, but public health practitioners are forbidden from engaging in social critique. it's very funny to watch
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anonumos posted:This is the tragedy of modern medicine and something I am continuously astonished hasn't been fixed yet. They've known about it for decades... oh?
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# ? Sep 20, 2023 16:00 |
mycomancy posted:I'd also like this article. I got shouted out of the MtG thread because a couple cardboard hoarders couldn't understand what "toxic optimism" means. Found it, unnecessarily hard to find it, annoying. The Oldest Man posted:I re-watched The Big Short the other day and had something of an epiphany about this and maybe why our society is so catastrophically bad at undervaluing risk and overvaluing optimism.
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webcams for christ posted:more education cuts like this incoming? The school I went to dumped like 20+ majors and purged most of the faculty a year or two ago. They were in pretty bad financial trouble even before covid though, through some truly dumbass decisions from the top. Originally, if you had any outstanding unpaid poo poo on your account, you couldn't apply for your classes next semester and they wouldn't send you your diploma if you graduated. So like, even a late library book could gently caress you over there. The university president decided that some* students would be allowed to carry that debt from one semester to another. The guy over the business office interpreted it as ALL students would be able to carry it over. Suddenly, nobody is paying their account balances for the semester and the school can't make payroll. So they ended up having to let themselves be absorbed by one of the big state university systems, and took the opportunity provided by "financial distress" to get rid of all the tenured faculty. The two guys that hosed up golden parachuted out to Georgetown and Baylor.
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