What must be made clear is that this is not a crisis of individual choices. It is a systemic failure - within higher education and beyond. It is a crisis of managed expectations - expectations of what kind of job is normal, what kind of treatment is to be tolerated, and what level of sacrifice is reasonable. When survival is touted as an aspiration, sacrifice becomes a virtue. But a hero is not a person who suffers. A suffering person is a person who suffers. If you suffer in the proper way - silently, or with proclaimed fealty to institutions - then you are a hard worker paying your dues. If you suffer in a way that shows your pain, that breaks your silence, then you are a complainer - and you are said to deserve your fate. But no worker deserves to suffer. To compound the suffering of material deprivation with rationalisations for its warrant is not only cruel to the individual, but gives exploiters moral license to prey. aljazeera/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-post-employment-economy-201311373243740811.html (ht Davito)
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