The Last Days of the Managerial Class

https://eyeofthesquid.com/the-last-days-of-the-managerial-class-5c95bd74ee60

#HackerNews #TheLastDaysofManagerialClass #ManagerialClass #FutureofWork #Leadership #Trends #WorkCulture

"As we’re seeing in the #US, the problem with destroying the #managerialclass is the lack of a replacement. As #Burnham understood, that class is dominant in complex modern #economies because it is impossible for the #capitalists to make anything work without a #bureaucracy below them."

https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/the-party-is-over-the-tory-slump-is-part-of-a-global-conservative-comedown

#KemiBadenoch
#rightwingpopulism
#Rightwingpolitics
#rightwingideology
#PartyPolitics
#politicalhistory
#politicalanalysis

"Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, is the author of 'Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class'.

This interview discuss the origin of trauma studies, self branding on social media and the ideology of the professional class. Liu has an unwavering commitment to historical materialism and a fierce critique of elitist academies. She explores the intense moralism of our times as it relates to the Freudian super-ego."—Joshua Citarella

Catherine Liu: Trauma, Virtue and Liberal Elites | Doomscroll >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6m3pIIS2k

#interview #insight #virtuehoarders #selfbranding #trauma #liberals #radicalleft #elite #populism #managerialclass #speechpolice #workingclass #academia #moralism #classes

An analysis of the 1993 movie "Falling Down"

https://youtu.be/Ji94tMVjNm8

#conformity #consumerism #DeathOfASalesman #FallingDownMovie #managerialClass #propaganda #subordination #tragicHero #TragedyAndTheCommonMan

The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt.

https://www.vox.com/23505311/elon-musk-twitter-managerial-woke-james-burnham

#Politics #RightWing #Twitter #ElonMusk #JamesBurnham #ManagerialClass

We admit its not all good, never supporting #QRCode #surveillance nor coercive #medicalExperimentation, but #COVID has has had big benefits in terms of doing (more) with less.

Less #travel, less time at the office, less #waste, less #uselessUniversityDegrees, less #overdevelopment (lost early unfortunately), less commitments, less extreme migration (aka #humanTrafficking) to #Australia, less #makeWork by the #managerialClass — these are all things the 99% wanted and got…

…do we just lose them?

@comicbot
Funny.

Great cartoon. Do keep in mind that ttere is such a thing as #setupToFail.

#CEOs #workplaceBullies #whyCoop #whyUBI #managerials #managerialClass

I'm ready to die for each and every toot. Fuckin come at me! #managerialclass