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Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success and Happiness
DIR By: forbitals
Date: September 25, 2021, 1:05 pm
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Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success and Happiness
Hardcover – August 11, 2015
by Miya Tokumitsu
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Do-What-You-Love-Happiness/dp/1941393470
An obvious play on Marsha Sinetar's title
a 2004 article by Robert Reich
Robert Reich: The Gateway to the Middle Class
A degree shouldn't be the only way.
HTML https://www.guernicamag.com/robert-reich-the-gateway-to-the-middle-class/
"Why college is necessary, but gets you nowhere."
So Robert Reich points out that there is a big catch in the idea
that college is worth it. Wages for nondegree holders have
dropped so sharply. Many college graduates hold jobs that don't
actually require degrees, pushing non-degree holders into even
lower paid work, if they can find any at all.
"Given all this," Reich writes, "a college degree is worth the
cost because it at least enables a young person to tread water."
John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1930, talks about the end of the
worst manifestations of the Protestant work ethic:
"
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social
importance, there will be a great change to the code of morals.
We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral
principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by
which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human
qualities into the position of highest virtues.
"
Refs
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Free Time: The Forgotten American
Dream, 1996
Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
(Verso, 2013), draws upon Marx's Gundrisse
Frederic Lordon, Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on
Desire (Verso, 2014)
Ross Perlin, Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little
in the Brave New Economy (Verso, 2012)
Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork
Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (2011)
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