Frank [he/him, he/him]

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  • The whole concept of “NEET” was invented by neoliberals as an alternative to saying “unemployed”. They needed a way to discuss the unemployment of “socially desirable” people; White men from middle income families who in prior times would have been training to be white collar professionals. “NEET” divides the reserver army of labor in to morally good and morally depraved categories - NEETs are contrasted with Reaganite nonsense like “Welfare queens”.



  • It’s because the whole concept of a “Criminal class” is the result of middle class English Protestants trying to create a framework for understanding society that conformed to their religious worldview ie God loves rich people because God made rich people morally good and hates poor people because he made poor people morally depraved. Communists who still cling to the idea of a “Lumpen” just flipped “God made rich people good” for “God made working people good” while retaining the morality and moralizing of British middle class white society of the 1890s.

    It has no basis in sociology, anthropology, medicine, or science generally.


  • This. The “Criminal Class” is a bougie Victorian social construction meant to weaponize Calvinist moralism. It has no place in any modern understanding of the social landscape. There is no criminal class, there are groups of marginalized people whose existence is made criminal by the state. And most of them work for cash wages.


  • Historically it’s often been the case that students drank at the same bars as working people and poor tradesmen. Students, whatever their family means, were often cash poor and had to stay wherever they could find cheap lodgings, which often meant in the middle of working class neighborhoods. And there have been plenty of students throughout history who worked until they could afford tuition, went to school until they ran out of money, then went back to work for however long before seeking employment.

    Universities are also frequently located in cities that are large, important, or both. So there’s a couple of reasons they’d be in close communication with working people.