Re: [Marxism] Imperialism and the US working class (Was YADL)

[Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a tendency in all these statistics to disappear the
inconvenient.  The great myth in America is that education fuels
mobility and to treat the conditions of professional and technical
employees as a reflection of that education. I don't even know that we
have accurate statistics on these sorts of things.  Everyone employed
at anything for any time during the week are listed as being employed
at such-and-such, and the incomes are always exaggerated.

This happens in every industry I've ever worked, and certainly so in
the education biz, where we are priests of the Great American
Faith...that education is the fuel for mobility and success.  I think
standards of living have been going down--and seriously so--for
decades.  We have generally had a level of prosperity that allows us
margins of choice that socially disguise how poorly we're doing...even
from ourselves.

ML

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