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Don't worry, for most people, their workplace will feel like a prison as well.

by Hamuko 4y ago

Godel_unicode 4y ago
Those people would do well to learn what the word “prison” means. Your 9 to 5 might suck, but let’s try and have some perspective…
- Hamuko 4y ago
  School isn't a literal prison either if you're advocating for sticking with the literal definition of the world.
  - kwatsonafter 4y ago
    Pedagogist here-- I don't have the time to gather a huge amount of materials in regard to this but it's worth pointing out that schools actually are designed to be, "like prisons" do to socioeconomic forces that turn schools into, "learn how to job" facilities. It's a natural consequence of neoliberal capitalism. Look into Foucault's, "Discipline and Punish." http://www.we-aggregate.org/piece/schools-and-prisons http://www.we-aggregate.org/piece/schools-and-prisons https://sputniksteve.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/schools-prisons-and-foucault/ https://sputniksteve.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/schools-prison... (Excuse the relatively, "non-scholar" links; I'll dig into the literature at a further date. It's worth exploring.)
kwatsonafter 4y ago
It's kind of true. This isn't going to change in the future. Neoliberalism means, "if you're not 21st century valuable you're going to be 19th century poor" and this has me troubled. The conundrum for me is how you can develop an advanced society without advanced education. It seems like technology becomes a social stratifier despite the, "advantages" that they gain the poor. This has historical precedent-- so far technological advances have done a great deal to correct social imbalances (consider working class life in the 1850s) but they have also furthered that gap between the most and least powerful in society. It seems that human culture closely follows power laws; it might be possible that, "elites" are a natural consequence of human existence. The question is how this will be managed in a world where elites have near absolute technical powers. It's worth thinking about I thinking about.

Don't worry, for most people, their workplace will feel like a prison as well.

by Hamuko 4y ago

Don't worry, for most people, their workplace will feel like a prison as well.

Those people would do well to learn what the word “prison” means. Your 9 to 5 might suck, but let’s try and have some perspective…

Hamuko 4y ago
School isn't a literal prison either if you're advocating for sticking with the literal definition of the world.
- kwatsonafter 4y ago
  Pedagogist here-- I don't have the time to gather a huge amount of materials in regard to this but it's worth pointing out that schools actually are designed to be, "like prisons" do to socioeconomic forces that turn schools into, "learn how to job" facilities. It's a natural consequence of neoliberal capitalism. Look into Foucault's, "Discipline and Punish." http://www.we-aggregate.org/piece/schools-and-prisons http://www.we-aggregate.org/piece/schools-and-prisons https://sputniksteve.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/schools-prisons-and-foucault/ https://sputniksteve.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/schools-prison... (Excuse the relatively, "non-scholar" links; I'll dig into the literature at a further date. It's worth exploring.)

kwatsonafter 4y ago

It's kind of true. This isn't going to change in the future. Neoliberalism means, "if you're not 21st century valuable you're going to be 19th century poor" and this has me troubled. The conundrum for me is how you can develop an advanced society without advanced education. It seems like technology becomes a social stratifier despite the, "advantages" that they gain the poor. This has historical precedent-- so far technological advances have done a great deal to correct social imbalances (consider working class life in the 1850s) but they have also furthered that gap between the most and least powerful in society. It seems that human culture closely follows power laws; it might be possible that, "elites" are a natural consequence of human existence. The question is how this will be managed in a world where elites have near absolute technical powers. It's worth thinking about I thinking about.