I spent my career at universities (2) except for a few years at Bell Labs and Bios group. I always felt that the organization I worked for was altruistic.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 11:45 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a great article! But I have a bit of a bone to pick with it. (I > know, right? What a boor I am.) I just can't help but read this as > inherently Presty. I work with a handful of GenZ at my minimum wage side > gig. They are hustlers, through and through. So a theme of the Presty > article does ring, that of "financially stable" (never ever ever mind > "well-off"; that's not even in the lexicon). But in that pursuit, my > decidedly non-Presty friends work more than one job. One of them has a job > at 2 breweries, working as an assistant brewer in one and as a "cellar > person" at the other because Assistant Brewer doesn't provide quite enough > income to pay the rents sought by our Land Lords. Another has 2 jobs, one > as a bartender and the other as a ... what? ... "accounting logistics" (?) > person at a car dealership. > > So the perspective and focus presented by Aden in the Presty article seems > VERY privileged to me ... but no more so than the privilege expressed by, > say, Steve's story about a state school graduate's perspective on the grant > submission/evaluation process. Is it any wonder we see more graffiti like > "Eat the Rich" these days? Is it any wonder my non-Presty friends don't > vote? > > Another theme implicit in the article is Sam Bankman-Fried's huckster > rhetoric of Effective Altrusim. When Presties talk of "service", "mission", > and "meaning", I get this icky feeling deep down. An article from Harvard > talking about work-life balance makes me a bit sick to my stomach in the > same way as listening to Peter Thiel talk about the Straussian Moment (or > Robin Hanson arguing we should have more babies). Yuck. I need a shower to > wash off this Presty filth. > > But similar to Eric's local deconstruction of Elliott's bullshit about > bimodal distributions, what's a hyper-privileged Presty to do? What options > are there other than going with the flow? What? Should Aden quit college > and ... walk the earth? https://youtu.be/dLdRsofkCVs?si=quzxQt7wOUZT375g > Nah. He should stay in the game and propel the criminal enterprise until he > finds his golden parachute. If he can't suppress his appetite for > "meaning", he can snack on some Greenwashing and, say, support the paper > straw initiative at the local county commissioner meetings. > > On 10/26/23 13:19, Tom Johnson wrote: > > FRIAM-ers: > > Many of us, probably a majority, have spent a lot of years in or around > college campuses. We dealt with students for decades. The latest issue of > Harvard Magazine has an interesting essay by a graduating senior describing > his and his classmates' outlook on their future and the world. All I can > say is I'm glad I am retired. > > See "What Work Means < > https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/11/university-people-undergraduate-what-work-means > >." > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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