Take the job and undermine from within!

If everyone to the right of Ezra Klein is a bad guy, I don't see how you're going to win in a democratic system. It's a mathematical fact that we are in fact going to have to live in a country with right-wing Christian Fundamentalists. We need to figure out how to do that.

for a MUCH higher quality of life, and especially MUCH better health, food, clothing, comfort.

However, if we add up wage work, plus childcare work, and household maintenance, I work from 6am-8pm roughly every weekday. 250 weekdays a year x 14 hrs a day is 3500 hours, excluding weekend household maintenance tasks, but roughly equivalent in hours to the medieval peasant.

This is great. I am very glad not to be a medieval peasant.

I've read that a big part of the STEM push was that Uni's could capture royalties from discoveries, providing a potentially lucrative long-term funding source from R&D. I'm sure there have been some home runs, but I wonder what the actual ROI on this cash for research move has been.

I’ve been working on something like this. Combining a liberal arts core, with a preprofessional prep, really pre-apprenticeship (in the city making fields). In city making in particular, the liberal arts question of: how do we all live together without killing each other, that’s on OLD question!

Fundamentally 'how does this impact the struggle' is going to come down to: is the majority understanding - the *image* - of LA protests (a) a building set on fire by 'looters' or is (b) an ICE agent clubbing someone's grandma or tear-gassing someone's kid?

If (b), you win.

But that's where all of this discourse is - American flags, not foreign flags, no burning buildings or cars, make the police strike first, get it on film - that is how, should the crisis comes, we get the numbers and they do not.

That's how you turn his calculation into miscalculation.

As an addendum, some folks who hold this utopian vision of the past will insist that most of that wealth we work for gives us no happiness.

This is, I think, a conceit of the young.

As someone whose spouse and child live only because of modern medicine, I'll take modernity, thank you *very* much.