One of the many excellent points in this essay is that the presence of the business schools on campus legitimizes precisely those logics that are then used to cut the core of the university- the humanities & other curiosity-driven rather than market-driven forms of inquiry.

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"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

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ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

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I just realized that the retired Penn prof blocking Uber Eats robots for months is the legendary media and technology historian Carolyn Marvin. www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...

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Yeah, I'm a medievalist. I'm 1. Picking pockets and going by the moon. 2. Dining on capons and sack. 3. Quarreling with the Hostess to beguile her of the money I owe. I'm FALSTAFFMAXXING

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