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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift | CBC.ca2024-03-23T19:44:32+00:00
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https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennialgen-z-strategy
robertogreco(1) The unemployment rate among recent college graduates in the U.S. is now higher than our country’s overall unemployment rate for the first time in over two decades, (2) More than 40 percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that do not traditionally require a bachelor’s degree (while one in eight are stuck in posts that pay $25,000 or less), and (3) the median income among the bottom half of college graduates is roughly 10 percent lower than it was three decades ago.
This is the millennial (and Old Gen-Zer) reality: an “anchor of student debt,” as Levitz puts it, taken out in the hopes of achieving fabled economic security. But who convinced us that college was going to solve, well, everything? In the book I’m finally finished writing on millennial burnout (actual cover coming soon, I promise) I try to work through that question: how did we come to believe in “(the best) college at any cost”? (See also: grad school at any cost).
A lot of the answer can be traced to “the education gospel,” a term coined by an economist (W. Norton Grubb) and a sociologist (Marvin Laverson) to describe the nexus of ideologies (about the future of America and democracy; about how to beat the USSR, then Japan, then China; about how the economy could replace the manufacturing jobs displaced by globalization) that undergird “college at any cost.”
Grubb and Laverson chose the word “gospel” to evoke just how ideological integrated — how naturalized — the idea had become. Of course more education is better than less education; of course you should go to college by any means necessary — even when the costs of that college outweigh the benefits, despite increasing evidence that college is not “worth” its cost for those who drop-out, or for those who come from lower-class backgrounds. They point to a study from the National Commission on the High School Senior year, released in 2001: “In the agricultural age, post-secondary college was a pipe dream for most Americans,” it declared. “In the Industrial Age, it was the birthright of only a few. By the space age it became common for many. Today, it is just common sense for all.”
The roots of this “common sense” go back to the mid-20th century, when the government decided to create the grant and loan programs that made it much, much easier for people to go to college. In 1947, 4.2% of women and 6.2% of men had a college degree; in 2018, those numbers had risen to 35.3% and 34.6% — but that’s of the entire population. A more useful statistic is the percentage of high school graduates who immediately enroll in college: which, in 2016, was 69.7%.
And here’s where the stats become really telling. For the group of students who started college — any type of college — in 2011, only 56.9% had finished their degree by 2017. Around 70% of graduates have student debt of some sort; in 2016, the average debt load was $37,172. That’s a huge amount of debt, especially given the fact that it’s $20,000 more than it was in 2003.
But that’s the people who have degrees. If you reverse the completion stat above, you realize that 43.1% of students who started college in 2011 had not finished their degree in six years. These are students who believed that college could be a pathway towards success, of stability, or their dream job — but couldn’t make it work. There are so many reasons why people are forced (or choose) to drop out of school, and some do find success and stability because they quit school. But they often have nearly as much debt as those with a degree but none of the credentials to put on their resumes — which helps explain why they’re three times as likely to default on their loans.
The institution that pisses me off the most in this scenario are for-profit colleges, where only 23% of students graduate, and 48% of those who do leave with more than $40,000 in debt. A whopping 52% of student loan defaults come from graduates of for-profit colleges. If you don’t know about the general scamminess and ethical grossness of the for-profit college, I can’t recommend Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed enough (you can buy it here, and read an excerpt here).
But if college is theoretically an “equality machine,” then for-profit colleges are inequality machine: they target first generation students, they disproportionately enroll (and fuck over) students of color, they charge massive amounts of money for degrees and education that could be obtained for far less at local community colleges, they jack up their price to the maximum allotted under loan guidelines, and they get away with it because 1) Betsy DeVos and 2) millennials have been so inculcated with the education gospel that, again, we believe that no matter how much it costs, how difficult it will be to complete a degree, how tight the market might be in the field we’re pursuing, the degree itself will be worth it.
To be clear: people with college degrees make more, statistically speaking, than people without college degrees. But the “equality” component of the machine is broken. There’s a massive gap between the promises that floated around that degree — and that includes graduate degrees — and the lived post-degree experience. We’re not talking about liberal arts graduates ski-bumming until they decide they’re ready for that six-figure job. We’re talking about those 40% of graduates working jobs that don’t even require a college degree, and the one in eight working jobs that pay $25,000 or less.
I’ve talked to and heard from hundreds of millennials in this position. If they have loans, they’re either on income-based repayment (and they’re convinced that they’ll be paying them off forever), in default (with reverberations and shame across the rest of their lives), or in deferment (amassing huge amounts of interest). They feel stupid and ashamed that they took out as much money as they did, or pissed that so many forces in their lives — parents, guidance counselors, professors, culture, peers — assured them that it would all work out, if they could just get that degree. It’s hard to convey just how difficult and devastating it is to pay down a broken dream every single month for the rest of your life.
I’ve written extensively about student loans, and the broken state of the student loan forgiveness program, here. That piece was the first thing I wrote after the original millennial burnout article, because it was the most tangible expression of the gap between what millennials were told their future would look like, if only they worked hard enough, and the lived, post-Recession reality. To understand millennial burnout, you can’t just understand the amount of student loans we’re carrying; you have to understand what they feel like. And if and when you understand that, it’s incredibly straightforward to see why so many support Sanders and Warren.
Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans).
But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine? You could work tirelessly at cutthroat, soulless jobs (investment banking!) no matter the cost (to yourself, to your family, to the environment, to society), adopting what Ehrenreich calls “the yuppie strategy.” Or you could vote for politicians who promised to lower your taxes, make your life better, regardless of the effects on those who didn’t act and spend and look like you. (See: the widespread embrace of Reaganism). As Levitz points out, in 1984, 61% of voters under 25 voted for Reagan. Conservativism — think Michael J. Fox as Alex Keaton from Family Ties — was, I dunno, cool? Not actually cool, but very much mainstream.
The strategy makes “sense,” in so far as it was motivated by self-preservation and fear. And a whole lot of millennials were raised by parents who lived through, if not fully embraced, the guiding ideologies of that period. But it’s fascinating to watch as millennials and Gen-Z — — faced not just with the fear of falling, but the widespread reality — embrace a profoundly different one."]]>genz millennials generations geny education highered highereducation debt studentdebt boomers wnortongrubb ericlevitz unemployment employment wages loans unschooling deschooling educationgospel marvinlaverson ussr coldwar japan china highschool inequality commonsense investment parenting betsydevos nonprofits nonprofit forprofits capitalism berniesanders elizabethwarren barbaraehrenreich ronaldreagan reaganism conservatism familyties alexkeaton michaeljfox tressiemcmillancottom race generationz generationy learning babyboomers zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a06148b61430/On the Tragedy of Paul Volcker2019-12-11T08:13:57+00:00
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/on-the-tragedy-of-paul-volcker
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/22/progressive-politics-capitalism-unions-healthcare-education
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/global-trumpism-bailouts-brexit-and-battling-climate-change-1.5321199
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/these-3-policy-failures-are-killing-the-american-dream.html
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https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/the-financialization-of-life.html
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611/
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https://kottke.org/18/08/offering-a-more-progressive-definition-of-freedom
robertogrecoYou’ll hear me talk all the time about freedom. Because I think there is a failure on our side if we allow conservatives to monopolize the idea of freedom — especially now that they’ve produced an authoritarian president. But what actually gives people freedom in their lives? The most profound freedoms of my everyday existence have been safeguarded by progressive policies, mostly. The freedom to marry who I choose, for one, but also the freedom that comes with paved roads and stop lights. Freedom from some obscure regulation is so much more abstract. But that’s the freedom that conservatism has now come down to.
Or think about the idea of family, in the context of everyday life. It’s one thing to talk about family values as a theme, or a wedge — but what’s it actually like to have a family? Your family does better if you get a fair wage, if there’s good public education, if there’s good health care when you need it. These things intuitively make sense, but we’re out of practice talking about them.
I also think we need to talk about a different kind of patriotism: a fidelity to American greatness in its truest sense. You think about this as a local official, of course, but a truly great country is made of great communities. What makes a country great isn’t chauvinism. It’s the kinds of lives you enable people to lead. I think about wastewater management as freedom. If a resident of our city doesn’t have to give it a second thought, she’s freer.
Clean drinking water is freedom. Good public education is freedom. Universal healthcare is freedom. Fair wages are freedom. Policing by consent is freedom. Gun control is freedom. Fighting climate change is freedom. A non-punitive criminal justice system is freedom. Affirmative action is freedom. Decriminalizing poverty is freedom. Easy & secure voting is freedom. This is an idea of freedom I can get behind."]]>petebuttigieg freedom democracy 2018 jasonkottke everyday life living progressive progress progressivism education water healthcare universalhealthcare health climatechange politics policy poverty inequality decriminalization voting affirmitiveaction guncontrol liberation work labor salaries wages economics socialism policing police lawenforcement consent patriotism wealth familyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:652890c69b94/[Essay] | Punching the Clock, by David Graeber | Harper's Magazine2018-05-20T01:28:51+00:00
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/punching-the-clock/
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http://www.longviewoneducation.org/political-economy-skills-gap/
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https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/rent-is-affordable-to-low-wage-workers-in-exactly-12-us-counties/529782/
robertogrecolabor housing rent 2017 minimumwage affordability california hawaii jobs wages incomehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f7121e198e6/Deliveroo and its ilk are serving up low wages, insecurity and social division | Stefan Stern | Opinion | The Guardian2015-12-22T22:04:53+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/17/deliveroo-gig-economy-human-cost
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember_2015/features/bloom_and_bust058470.php?page=all
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http://www.epi.org/publication/broad-based-wage-growth-is-a-key-tool-in-the-fight-against-poverty/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/the-machines-are-coming.html
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/boycott_divest_and_sanction_corporations_that_feed_on_prisons_20150405
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https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-story-of-college-48d3603e58c6
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muv99kqKU4U
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https://www.thenation.com/article/200257/score-wages-liberal-nihilism
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https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-income-just-cause-massive-inflation-fe71d69f15e7
robertogrecouniversalbasicincome 2014 scottsantens inflation economics hyperinflation wages income compensation salaries labor work ubihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3c36aa3726a/Robert Reich: Why Work Is Turning Into a Nightmare | Alternet2015-02-04T22:17:37+00:00
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-why-work-turning-nightmare
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http://randallszott.org/2014/09/30/transcendent-dandyism-the-art-of-dolce-far-niente-albert-cossery-and-escape-artistry/
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/against-sharing/
robertogrecouber labor sharing economy wages capitalism economics 2014 aviasher-schapiro risk siliconvalley unions sharingeconomyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e9ef79e94d3f/Robert Reich (Work and Worth)2014-08-04T23:17:57+00:00
http://robertreich.org/post/93632709170
robertogreco2014 robertreich worlk labor inequality incomeinequality income pay economics productivity wages capitalism purpose value moneyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f451bc5ff8b0/Our Work Here Is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy [.pdf]2014-06-26T21:59:36+00:00
http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/our_work_here_is_done_robot_economy.pdf
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/12/black-friday-and-the-minimum-wage.html
robertogreco2013 georgepacker minimumwage walmart wages salaries work labor economics incomeinequality inequalityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d70f9ef71e8/Filthy Lucre | VICE United States2013-06-05T21:48:04+00:00
http://www.vice.com/read/filthy-lucre
robertogrecomollcrabapple us money economics wages employment salaries luck success art privilege class meritocracy wealth winning scalehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48906cf07e18/The Decline of the Professional – Implications for the Future of Money | OnTheSpiral2011-08-01T04:30:27+00:00
http://onthespiral.com/the-decline-of-the-professional-implications
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• I do this for money, not for personal gratification.
• There is no grey area between my personal and professional roles.
• When operating in my professional role I get paid.
• When operating in my personal role I don’t talk about work.
• To do so would undermine my ability to get paid.
• I have obligation to my firm and family to bring home the bacon.
• Anyone who doesn’t maintain the same distinction is unprofessional.
Of course, every one of the assertions above is now losing relevance. Most importantly we now expect more from our work than money…we now seek to develop careers around our passions, or at least to structure our work environments in order to encourage engagement. As the amount of intrinsically motivated economic activity grows the justifications for commercial payment becomes less clear…"]]>professionalism change careers passion pay wages economics motivation obligation meaning purpose 2011https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d54e224208d4/All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup | Mother Jones2011-07-02T22:05:33+00:00
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-hours
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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11168/1154205-109-0.stm
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First, German manufacturers, particularly midsize & small-scale ones that often dominate global markets in specialized products, don't seek funding from capital markets (there's a local banking sector that handles their needs) & don't answer to shareholders. They make things, while we make deals, or trades, or swaps.
Second, the key to both retention & continual upscaling of manufacturing in Germany is the composition of corporate boards, which are required by law to have an equal number of management and employee representatives."]]>us germany business policy making manufacturing capitalism shareholders finance unions labor wages profits 2011https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:597985c5e86e/Income Inequality and the 'Superstar Effect' - NYTimes.com2010-12-26T22:56:19+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html?pagewanted=all
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/03/was-recent-productivity-growth-an-illusion.html
robertogrecoeconomics productivity growth tylercowen michaelmandel us 2009 crisis recession wages markets healthcarehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0ded30b73ab/Baumol's cost disease (aka Baumol Effect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia2008-11-15T19:10:22+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease
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