Re: exploiting the intelligentsia

2002-12-03 Thread Chris Burford
Gene wrote about the sophisticated financing that allows Harvard to maintain its position as a preeminent business while apparently offering charity. and At 02/12/02 08:02 -0800, Johan wrote: When will the vast armies of the working intelligentsia see the bigger picture on a world scale?

Re: Re: exploiting the intelligentsia

2002-12-03 Thread johan soderberg
Chris wrote: enough insight and flexible irony, (thank you)...and... could only have conviction in the importance of increasing the market share of enterprise A versus enterprise B and feign some team spirit Right so. The two just wont mix, will they! Poor capital, how can it muster

exploiting the intelligentsia

2002-12-02 Thread Chris Burford
The New Labour government in Britain has a strategic problem. The minister for higher education, Margaret Hodge, was explaining it yesterday. It believes that by 2010, 8/10 new jobs in Britain will require a university education. Therefore it is trying to push the proportion of the relevant

Re: exploiting the intelligentsia

2002-12-02 Thread johan soderberg
When will the vast armies of the working intelligentsia see the bigger picture on a world scale? Having recently left the academic sanctum - with astronomic debts and tiny prospects of finding work, I have some thoughts on the subject. Tutition fees and student debt is necessary. Not to pay

Re: Re: exploiting the intelligentsia

2002-12-02 Thread Eugene Coyle
Further on Johan Soderberg: I think the student loans have a pernicious effect that may be implied in what Johan writes but I want to make explicit. The loans make the borrower as desperate for growth in the economy as are the capitalists. Further on Chris Burford: He mentions a