Re: the view from capital
On Sep 10, 2006, at 9:19 PM, joanna wrote:
The more people who fail to complete college, the more people who
will blame themselves for their failure to find decent paying jobs.Maybe. Or maybe, it will occur to some that there should be no
required link between a living wage and a college degree. Maybe it
will occur to them that college is just a huge justification for
inequality.
Joanna, you have a PhD, right? Do you regret having one? Do you think
all those years of education made you better-equipped to cope with
the world and make a living? Isn’t education a lot more than a “huge
justification for inequality”? Why take such a hostile, reductionist
attitude?
Apropos Cde Cox’s original point - what if the capitalist class’s
short-term greed (i.e., being too cheap to finance mass higher
education) undermines their long-term interest in having a skilled
workforce? Are the capitalists always right? Aren’t there supposed to
be contradictions in the system, even by orthodox Marxist lights?
Isn’t this an aspect of O’Connor’s second contradiction?
Doug