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>To illustrate this point she highlights public goods or services that are increasingly privatised, like for-profit coding boot camps, which are marketed as an
by ppod 7y ago
>To illustrate this point she highlights public goods or services that are increasingly privatised, like for-profit coding boot camps, which are marketed as an investment or a substitute for a four-year university degree. “The tech industry is trying to provide solutions to crises that they didn’t necessarily create, but that they are now exacerbating.
This is a good example of how lines of thought like the author's that purport to be democratic socialist are actually committed to maintaining the institutions that entrench existing inequalities in cultural, social (and of course, financial) capital.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoWhat's socialist about VC-backed “bootcamps”?