Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:20

@MattyGHG it’s the average I found but it’s presumably rounding in state colleges that are cheap for state residents etc. Just not two year community colleges which are much cheaper.

Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:11

RT @muskox: When I worked in Financial Aid at UNL I processed paperwork allowing homeless teens to claim independence so they could take ou…

Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:19

RT @mad_mayday: @davidgraeber I went back years after dropping out due to financial insecurity. After graduating w/honors in 2016, I went b…

Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:17

RT @AndySpence: The Campaign for Meaningful Work With some inspiration from – Professor Katie Bailey @davidgraeber Mark E Smith My Cat S…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:51

@keithcross9214 nah the advance is all you ever get with most foreign publishers. Still, you can say “Bullshit Jobs appeared in Farsi!”

Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:43

@trotskybaby @mempko well I didn’t really eat breakfast. More like always dinner, sometimes lunch, unless I ate lunch on campus

Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:14

RT @davidgraeber: @mempko despite the jokes, ramen is actually quite good if you cook it with chinese sausage (which are super cheap) and s…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:14

RT @Garrett_W_: @davidgraeber My intro to cultural anthro students and I looked into years of budgets at Kansas State University on this Q.…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:03

exciting email! Yes I have just received $211.46 for the rights to the Persian edition of Bullshit Jobs. Well, they’re under massive economic sanctions, so I guess they’re a bit skint. https://t.co/pLKpVnfcJ6

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:52

RT @davidgraeber: @Chomskyter It was very simple math. NYU students then were paying $20k/year. 8 courses a year = $2500 each. I was paid $…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:52

@Chomskyter It was very simple math. NYU students then were paying $20k/year. 8 courses a year = $2500 each. I was paid $2500. So I decided the woman with the spiked hair in the centre of the second row was paying me. The other $97.5k that Intro Anthro brought in was profit.

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:41

RT @7amkickoff: @davidgraeber I’ve long advocated students threatening direct action against University leadership and demand reductions in…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:41

@DefriesDavid with 3x as many administrators per prof as there were 30 years ago I’m not surprised

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:38

RT @JBujes: @davidgraeber Highest paid uni employees @1 million a year or so are football coaches. Lots of expense and growth with admin. L…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:36

@niftynei oh I remember when I was in grad school & the government made a decision to start taxing student stipends as income. So my first reaction was “oh does that mean we can also apply for welfare & food stamps?” But they told me no, we couldn’t. So now you can!

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:32

@RulesSelmer @Chomskyter I know it’s like they’re TRYING to destroy British culture. First you get rid of the dole. Then you enslave students…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:22

@Chomskyter I remember calculating that in the adjunct course I taught at NYU, many years ago, that of the 40 students who took the course, one was paying my salary (assuming said student was taking 4 courses, 1/4 of their tuition went to me), the other 39 … who knows?

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:14

@mempko despite the jokes, ramen is actually quite good if you cook it with chinese sausage (which are super cheap) and snow peas. As I did for roughly 2/3 of my meals in college at some points.

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:13

for me the most disturbing element is that 40% of students don’t finish in 6 years. So more than half of Americans go to college but huge numbers never complete it. So they remain starving students doing casualized work forever, effectively

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:33

what the hell is wrong with America’s higher ed system? They charge students $35k a year placing them in debt for the rest of their life & then starve them? Where is all this money going? To sports stadiums? https://t.co/6IEUlbxJRd

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 17:20

@davidwengrow @politicsanth @MaryTracy It’ll be fun watching readers having fun with the book. I suspect it’ll also be alarming how many immediately start becoming alarmed by what they think we might, or even might not, be saying.