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Hpcwire: Thinking Forward: Conrad Wolfram On The Computational Knowledge Economy
Knowledge economy
There are various definitions for “a knowledge economy,” but I think of it as one in which the majority of economic activity is based on knowledge rather than manual labor. But now the value-chain of knowledge is shifting. The question is not whether you have knowledge but know…
In The Name Of Love | Jacobin
Academia and the doctrine of doing what you love
There are many factors that keep PhDs providing such high-skilled labor for such extremely low wages, including path dependency and the sunk costs of earning a PhD, but one of the strongest is how pervasively the DWYL doctrine is embedded in academia. Few other professions fuse…