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Comment on the dirty details of my new salary by Zombie solidarity | Flat 7

Zombie solidarity | Flat 7 — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:30:23 +0000

[...] the call for Chancellor Kathei’s resignation over her actions towards protest on campus. Dean Spade’s public reflection on drawing an academic salary. Yvonne Hartmen and Sandy Darab’s “call for slow scholarship”. Diane [...]

Comment on the dirty details of my new salary by Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:47:44 +0000

I admire what you have accomplished, coming from very difficult circumstances and achieving a great deal. It’s also amazing how much you give back, both financially and with other resources. One thing I have to disagree with is considering not paying back loans (both you personally and on a large scale). As much as big banks have made some terrible decisions, people who borrow money (myself included) do so with the knowledge that they must pay it back. If you are against banks and paying the money back, then I really don’t think you should borrow in the first place. You enter a contractual agreement to pay it back and while student debt has saddled a large portion of the population, it is the personal responsibility of the borrower to enter into the agreement with an understanding of how much is being borrowed, how much interest will be paid, and how long it will take to pay off. As much as having student loan debt is a big weight on people, they made that decision and if they are morally opposed to paying it back, they shouldn’t have borrowed in the first place. The price tag of higher education, causing people to feel they need to borrow in order to go to school, is another story.

Comment on The Practice of Freedom: A History of the Self Education Foundation by E Nepon

E Nepon — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:23:46 +0000

Hello! Just wanted to let you know that I moved the SEF archive site – here’s the new link: http://selfeducationfoundation.wordpress.com/

Thanks again for writing about this history!

Comment on Privileged with Cancer by Hugh Peterson

Hugh Peterson — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:44:27 +0000

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Comment on Moving. by Cox

Cox — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:26:31 +0000

Tyrone! Its about a year since you moved to Maine. Is there an update? How are you? Reading your post really resonates with me right now as I relocated to Durham and am in closer touch with birds, sky, trains and green. It is, so important. Best to you.

Comment on Enough: The Book! (call for submissions) by AP

AP — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:36:21 +0000

Capitalism is freedom. Why do you folks hate freedom? What we see today in America is cronyism, not capitalism. You anti-freedom zealots are fighting for more cronyism, not less.

I am against you enemies of human freedom. I will not be your slave!

Comment on Zeph’s story by Kiki

Kiki — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:03:25 +0000

and I forgot to say, you taught me so much. Your stories about your friends from lower/middle-class backgrounds who prioritize establishing a stable financial future for themselves… is inspiring and lets me prioritize that for myself. Your stories of how people in our radical/punk/outcast societies face a crux in their 30s/40s and either choose (if they can) fiscal stability or continued autonomy & independence… has allowed me to make that choice (because for me it is a choice) and feel less guilt/ambivalence about “selling out” vs. survival. Maybe that doesn’t sound ideal, but it *IS* survival in the capitalist world we live in. For me, it *does* feel like a decision to tolerate the indignities of accepting capitalism and survive, or to deny them and be relegated to poverty.

Comment on Zeph’s story by Kiki

Kiki — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:54:21 +0000

wow Zeph. I often feel wrong about how complicated I make things in my head, that it should somehow just be a gut decision, jump or don’t, but it’s not. Thank you. Wish it were easier, but disentangling this fucked up cobwebs of generations of capitalism and exploitation is fucking hard. I sometimes lay back on my history being raised in trailers in the rural South, getting govt cheese, getting glasses from the Lion’s Club, escaping a fundie Xtian boarding school — but the truth is, now I’m literally in the 1%, globally. I make 2 or 3 times what most of the folks I know make, but somehow still feel impoverished. Privileged, for sure. Again, thank you.

Comment on Buy One, Get One. Free. by Loop

Loop — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:38:38 +0000

Thank you. Your text is epiphanic.

Comment on Reflections from a Homownersexual by Lindsay Jack

Lindsay Jack — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:18:31 +0000

I really appreciate this article. I’m reflecting on how and why it made me uncomfortable. Partly this is because of internalized myths of wealth accumulation. Thanks for posting this!