27
Sep
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.
David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman)
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lisavilisa My bitterness at graduating college in May 2009 is only growing stronger with each job search.
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