Many of you don’t even care about dismantling the system that exploits us, you just want to be rich enough to survive the system and exploit others. Lack of class consciousness will be the death of us.
Imagine being at a university like Harvard or Oxford and using AI to think and write. The whole world is unpaywalled to you. The world's most beautiful and well stocked libraries are open to you. What a waste.
@avmalli Absolutely - I was the first generation in my family to attend university at all, let alone apply for advanced degrees. There’s a real epistemic inequality when it comes to knowledge and understanding of academia itself.
it’s not that hard to get a PhD apart from for those who came through state education, first-gen students, migrant students, non-wealthy students, those having to navigate gender and racial and ableist barriers, those with health conditions, with caring responsibilities, and..
Policies are studied by people who have spent their lives never knowing what it’s like living in a PPR, raised by nonliterate parents, and the struggle to get out of poverty. All you do is make the poor the subject of your research to formulate a theoretical framework.