"In other words, it’s a form of triage, with a touch of class eugenics about it, the unspoken idea that some people - very disproportionately low-income and socially powerless - are just too far gone to do much about it. Frontline health and care workers do not believe this. But the state does, and therein arises another funding gap."
https://guyrundle.substack.com/p/cohealth-tech-the-social-state-the
Why are US consumers so angry? It’s not just high prices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/us-consumer-rage-prices-economy
The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
We can't do much about the hardened #fluffy crowd - so committed to comfort and respectability that no amount of evidence will shift them toward meaningful action. That is a real limit, and it's worth being honest about it rather than wasting energy trying to convert the unconvertible. But the hardened fluffy crowd is not the main problem. The more urgent challenge is the vast non-action bloc: the enormous number of people who are not hostile to change, not ideologically committed to the […]
“Rural workers in #Bolivia have seized an #oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general #strike against #neoliberalism.
The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.”
In my experience, most employers won't *tell* you to work beyond your contracted hours. But #neoliberalism finds *other* ways to extract more of your labour. It creates a culture of unrealistic expectations, deadlines and demands for 'productivity' and 'delivery' that exert enourmous pressure and evoke fear of judgement and repercussions. So we 'voluntarily' #overwork evenings or weekends, to relieve that pressure, and to stay safe. And over time we run the risk that our health and even our sense of personhood are erroded.
I'm trying to change my relationship to work, and often I feel unsure how to do it. But I felt inspired to learn recently that folks more than a century ago gave us a clear starting point for our boundaries:
We want to feel the sunshine,
And we want to smell the flowers,
We’re sure that God has willed it,
And we mean to have Eight Hours.
...
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest,
Eight hours for what we will!
Trump says Venezuela’s economy has people ‘dancing in the streets.’ Not quite. - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/f1D5w
Any influx of money will go to the rich.
How we built the neoliberal #Deathcult
For most people, the crisis feels recent. Housing costs. Energy bills. Food prices. Debt. Insecure work. Growing inequality. Endless wars. Ecological breakdown. The #mainstreaming story is that these are separate problems with separate causes. COVID. Ukraine. China. Immigration. Technology. Bad politicians. The reality is simpler, these crises grow from the same roots - the moment things changed, one graph tells the story. From the end of World War II until roughly the early 1970s, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/how-we-built-the-neoliberal-deathcult/
The continuing saga of #University mismanagement now focuses on the #UniverstityOfWollongong with allegations of #cronyism and favoured #consultancies.
“The corruption watchdog has confirmed three main areas it will probe, including whether the university's chief governance officer and secretary, Alyssa White, or any other staff subverted recruitment processes for governance roles.
The commission will also examine whether, since 2024, Chancellor Michael Still, Ms White, or any other staff improperly awarded or influenced the awarding of work to a consultancy company, Aspirall Consulting International.” (Source: ABC News)
#Managerialism #NeoLiberalism #UniversityCouncils #Mismanagement #Corruption #TertiarySector #UoW #AusPol #GovernanceFails
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