The University System Is Increasingly Exploiting Its Faculty and Staff

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i think the reason we have such unalienating jobs is that we're granted so much autonomy. We do benefit from a system, a university system, that is increasingly exploiting its faculty and probably its staff. It has become clear whenever we disagree with the university, we are not in any control. Iam just sometimes i feel as if our faculty,.

In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.