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finally got a pdf of The Death of Human Capital and it is really good :)
specifically chapter 10 rethinking labor supply
obv a bit workerist, statist and market oriented, but really great short term ideas, and way to bridge between contemporary neolib econ and more leftist perspectives
like i feel like theres really strong principles and perspectives, but a bit too much optimism about the capitalist state being able to adopt and maintain this vision
maybe useful for people agitating and pressuring, and definitely helpful to get people to see better possibilities, i just worry about its realistic limitations for implementation
again tho this is kinda inherent to a work like this, so im not saying they should have done this differently, just like thinking about future ideas building off
like im always skeptical of ideas that are like "we need to do better at incorporating x into this system" and its like yea ok but youre not proposing a material method for how that can continually be brought about, so instead it will just be eroded for purposes of profit/power
this is @ "rethinking economic returns" especially. like "we need a new accounting system to include all different types of work and need to get rid of the barrier between private and public returns" and its like ya thats great i agree but how do you expect that to manifest
in reality... like descriptively, firms are self interested in valorizing capital so ,.... whats your model for bringing this about and keeping it?
like the whole "society with markets, not a market society" is such liberal cope bullshit lmfao
T-T this chapter went downhill so fast bruh
oh also i should be clear ofc ofc they arent critical enough of coercive education, even tho they do have better takes than most (quote from sam carr's research)
even tho they quote from ppl like freire ultimately theyre clearly much more influenced by left libs like keynes or dewey
dont get me wrong theres much better stuff to learn from them than 90% of other things, but it can be very confusing and almost utopian imo to think that those reforms can be made and stay in place while keeping the economic base