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Miguel Clark Mallet's avatar

I feel something like a curse since I’ve spent most of my working life in two fields that capitalism is destroying: newspaper journalism and higher education. In both fields, the rhetoric of their proper mission is used to paper over the failure of both to do the job a healthy democracy demands. The most disheartening thing is that there are solutions, but the lack of leadership to make the changes we need. And a lack of understanding on the part of the public.

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Nikki Hardin's avatar

Fantastic article! The plight of adjuncts is shameful—they need a union but that’s a fairy tale possibility I assume. Reading this made my blood boil, especially when it comes to the boneheads in state legislatures who cut funding to public universities over and over. There were so many more tuition aid possibilities when I went to college. In VA, there was even a state program that paid for “displaced homemakers” to attend community college after a divorce left them with no money to get an education or qualifications to make a living. Can you imagine such a compassionate program today? I don’t know how kids from non-wealthy families cobble together enough aid or part time jobs to get through college today. Education should be a right, not a privilege for the rich. Metastatic capitalism is killing us.

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