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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…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Afghan workers in Iran
Most have settled onto Iranian society’s lowest rungs, living in the oldest and cheapest parts of Iranian cities and working menial jobs that Iranians don’t want to do; almost every construction worker in the country is Afghan. (1253-1254)
Obsession With 'hard Work' Is A Dangerous Distraction
Keynes's fifteen-hour week never arrived
The dream in the past was that capitalism would bring about a reduction in work hours. Keynes famously looked forward to the day when we would work only 15 hours per week. He thought that rising levels of affluence would lead to a shorter working week and to the liberation of…