"Reforming government contracting, controlling medical costs, breaking up big-tech, opening the professions to international competition, these sound technocratic, even “pro-market”. But under present levels of stratification, the consequences of these things would be a revolution, whole swathes of society accustomed to status and political enfranchisement would find themselves banished towards a “normal” they used to … Continue reading Predatory Precarity
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Identity & Unspoken Privileges
Privilege is frequently discussed in term of race, gender and sexual orientation. If you are white, male and heterosexual, you are one of the most privileged members of society, according to most frameworks of privilege. Intersectionality is certainly a useful way of looking at societal systems of oppression and an aid in offering critiques of … Continue reading Identity & Unspoken Privileges
