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"Lumpenburgeoise" whose very real political energy fueled momentum. These are all the people mashed into this factory line university system we've built up, but emerge only to find there's no "good" job waiting on the other side. Their beef with capitalism is that it's "unfair".

But the reason it is unfair is that these people have to work like proles! They're bitter because they have to be workers, when in reality (they feel) they deserve far better than that!

I would be happy to be a janitor or bus driver and just post and game in my spare time if I could actually live that way. Hell I'd rather do that than grind and kiss ass or monitor timesheets. Undergrad debt in the US contributes to the inability to fall gracefully this way tho

Oh definitely. You've touched on the core of the way forward politically. Let's make being a janitor or bus driver something with dignity and comfort and value, not something hellish and bad and low that's taken to be okay because all the grad students are above such work.

The PMCs would rather die than work, to borrow from that amazing article. But they belong to a class without a real economic purpose. So in the end, they will become proletarized like the rest, and have to work or die.

I liked the first video better

I'm hiding my power level for now.