"The target of the administration’s campaign is a stratum of society that’s sometimes called the #ProfessionalManagerialClass, or the #PMC, although there’s not one universal moniker that #MAGA applies to the group it is now crushing. That group includes society’s knowledge workers, its cognitive elite, the winners of the tournament that is the American meritocracy. It covers not only #lawyers, university administrators, and #professors, but also #consultants, investment #bankers, #scientists, #journalists, and other white-collar workers who have prospered in the information age.

Back in the 1990s, as the group began to emerge in its current form, the liberal economics commentator Robert Reich hailed its members as “symbolic analysts”—people who identify and solve problems by thinking through ideas rather than via physical labor. A decade later, the urbanist Richard Florida put forth an even more triumphalist term: the “#creativeclass.” That is, its members had the academic training to master the complexities of a globalized economy, the intellectual skills to conquer the digital world."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-waging-war-professional-class/682409/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-h3gdyrK22tbt8Qkwl4sX4

Trump Has Found His Class Enemy

The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.

The Atlantic

@johnquiggin latest on CEO delusions about return-to-office:

“[…] a recent KPMG survey found that 83% of CEOs expected a full #ReturnToOffice within three years. Such a finding raises serious questions, not so much about #RemoteWork but about whether CEOs deserve the power they currently hold and the pay they currently receive.”

https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/in-their-plaintive-call-for-a-return

#WorkerPower #WorkConditions #ProfessionalManagerialClass #Parasites

In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed

With most company bosses expecting a full return to the office within three years, questions are being raised about the power they wield and the salaries they command

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Hey, fam. I'd really like to do submissions for #Caturday and #SilentSunday but I just can't. The absolute, and, perhaps at best, accidental support of complete genocide of the Palestinian people prevents me from doing so. And the people who have forgotten student protests of another genocide, Vietnam?, honestly, piss off. BTW, you think your adopted ignorance protects your feeble Managerial Class wealth? It won't. You're a mark. You are a perpetual sucker and accidentally morally corrupt. Have such a nice day "Incredibly Smart People, smarter than any person with a basic conscience." Much Love, V. 💜
#Liberals #ProfessionalManagerialClass #CitizenJournalists #Hypocrisy #Immoral #Inept

One barrier a lot of #transportation folks have when talking about #jobs #WorkforceDevelopment and #labor is that it’s usually framed as a performance metric or a boring line - ignoring that they’re talking about people, about workers.

Another barrier is the ingrained, usually unexamined, anti-union philosophical underpinnings.

Likely because many transportation folks are from the #ProfessionalManagerialClass and don’t identify as workers. And believe that #unions are for the trades.