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Flexibility also means a redistribution of risks away from the state and the economy towards the individual. The jobs on offer become short-term and easily terminable (i.e. ‘renewable’). And finally, flexibility means: ‘Cheer up, your skills and knowledge are obsolete, and no one can say what you must learn in order to be needed in the future.’
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
it is important to understand that __schools do more than reproduce capitalist inequalities; they also do ideological work to justify the existence of those same inequalities.__ Schools in the United States have played a key role in legitimating existing socioeconomic and racial inequalities, because our system of education is predicated on the idea that hard work and individual merit are the keys to overcoming any and all structural inequalities presented by society at large.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
REDD is also incentivising a new wave of land grabs: corporations and states are rushing to buy up forests in developing countries in order to cash in on the payouts, a practice now known as ‘carbon colonialism’.
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