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Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life

Revolutionary Left Radio

CHAPTER

The Administration Bloat and the Status Quo

Sally Kohn: We're strapping students with this huge amount of debt if they want to get a college education, which we've all been told is the only way to even a slightly decent life. And then we have this huge debt hanging over our heads. She says it's kind of convenient because what does huge amounts of debt do? It tends to make people more obedient and desperate for an income. Also makes them more likely to put up with shitty conditions, shittier wages, crappy bosses. So I see like there's these other institutions of power in our society that actually benefit whether consciously or not by the state of affairs.

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