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>Okay your son then. Now, how about the rest of the post? How is
>differential compensation working in ballet for you? Tell me your son
>thinks you could stand up to a class evaluation.
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>What are these incentives supposed to do once they are doled out? Who
>are the `we' and the `they'? Why should we want to follow their
>directives? What makes their merit schemes inherently more socially
>valuable, and so forth and so on.
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>See there are a whole range of activities, many of the arts for
>example that have no redeeming social value, produce nothing of
>material consequence, do not fit any neo-liberal scheme of value (and
>hence are dying of starvation) and yet provide a life full of quite
>wonderful work which I certainly enjoy and am glad that it exists.
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>Chuck Grimes
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