Here's a nice summary of the British problem, which is also emerging here in the Homeland if somewhat less abruptly. After all, most people in 'Merika think nothing of owing a hundred thousand dollars to bank$ters that gouge them their entire lives:
...For something like 100-150 years that System required an educated, skilled workforce to tend machinery and manage empire. Thanks to advances in technology, most of that educated, skilled workforce is now surplus to requirements and the System would like Us to, thanks for everything, go away now
And before We go away, that System would like to hoover up whatever crumbs of capital We managed to collectively accumulate over those last 100-150 years...
...It would seem that, by some completely unguided, stochastic process, our colleges and universities are being transformed from institutions which produce educated people capable of productive work and critical thinking into factories which produce dumbed-down debt bitches primed for a lifetime of shitty, service sector jobs and neo-serfdom
Which is just what our establishment needs and wants
What a marvelous coincidence
At which point one could argue till the cows come home whether this marvelous coincidence is...
a) the result of deliberate planning by a shadowy cabal of finance capitalists conspiring away on a little island somewhere
or
b) the natural consequence of finance capitalists acting in their class interest without much in the way of deliberate collusion
But to be honest, as with most of these debates about whether or not a conspiracy is at work, when you are on the receiving end the motivations of the people fucking you are largely academic
Your first priority should be to relieve your tormentors of the means by which they are fucking you...
See, that's a mistake. If you don't understand the motivations of the man with the cattle prod, you won't see where you're being driven to until it's too late, and you're hamburger.
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