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by pnf 4y ago
That sort of hairsplitting doesn't make much sense to me. It's like saying one gangster isn't as bad as another because one has a shorter wrap sheet. It's a difference that doesn't make a difference. They are evil i
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by pnf 4y ago
Eh, hard to grok why you think Twitter is not evil like Facebook. Have we learned nothing about the public/private partnership between the social media companies and the surveillance state? Twitter management is littered with "for
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by pnf 4y ago
They lower their admission and graduation standards. Mark em up, shop em on.
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by pnf 4y ago
Yes, for obvious reasons. Classroom size and the relative economic factors of urban schools make the job less desirable than non-urban schools. Urban kids are typically rich or poor. Rich kids end up in non-public schools. Non-urban schools
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by pnf 4y ago
I can't recall the name of it but there was a pre-pandemic startup for remote teams where it took a picture of you at your desk every few minutes to share with your team, supposedly to achieve less lonely remote-only workplaces. They m
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by pnf 4y ago
The parent comment answers itself. They would choose it because they actually don't have the alternative choice. In fact, aside from the transient young Teach for America type affluent idealists, most (not "all") urban public
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by pnf 4y ago
Education programs are the cash cows of universities. They are universally, intentionally subpar compared to the other colleges.
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by pnf 4y ago
The point is that it isn't a question of "red" states not wanting women to have high paying jobs.
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by pnf 4y ago
Some of the worst educational outcomes in the US are in deep blue states and deep blue cities. Meanwhile, suburban communities in the US tend to vote more "red" and are also the places people go to raise families because of the be
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by pnf 4y ago
That assumes someone qualified to be a teacher is also qualified to be a software engineer. Have you met a lot of urban public school teachers?
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by pnf 4y ago
Agree about Burnham's Marxist background showing throughout his analysis and predictions, and tend to find it inadequate in many respects, but he would likely reply that the so-called alliance is a temporary stage in the transition to
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by pnf 4y ago
Burnham argues (persuasively, imho) that managerialism is a third type of social structure, and that the argument for only either capitalism OR socialism per Marx is a false dichotomy. That modernized version of that brutality you mention w
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by pnf 4y ago
Mainstream culture is going to be dominated by consolidated media companies until we go back to decentralized, disconnected medieval village life. (Whether that's desirable or whether the path there is survivable is another question.)
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by pnf 4y ago
Interesting to see this sort of reflection happening again 80 years after Burnham published The Managerial Revolution. (Something waking people up. What could it be?) Burnham outlined a lot of the same points about the new ruling class and
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by pnf 4y ago
Ah, the Ol' Chug-a-Lug. I took the midnight train from Rome to Paris almost 15 years ago on sabbatical in Europe with my wife and largish dog. We had a sleeper car. It had a bit of Old World romance but I wouldn't say it was luxur