[lbo-talk] $15k for an internship!

[Dorene Cornwell]

And a couple days ago I got email inviting me to fork out $30 for the
privilege of partcipating in some orgy of volunteerism with other scions of
alma mater and some other fine peer institution. Well maybe the $30 is not
for the volunteer gig exactly but for the T-shirt and after-party. I am so
not amused and I did not even wade into the rsvp form to see how many other
reasons to have a tirade there might be.

DC

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> Well. Let's consider. In recent days lists have discussed torture, and
> the present "progressive" administration's decision that "american
> interests" are more important than exposing violations of international
> law. We have been discussing the (probable) coming destruction of the
> pension expectations of 10s of millions of u.s. residents.  There have
> also been posts on the increasing success of AIPAC insuppressing
> academic criticism of zionism.  Oh tes, the systematic terrorizing from
> the air of Afghanistan villagers. The final surrender of the UAW to
> pretend to protect the interests of american workers. I almost forgot.
> In the barbaric past there were diastrous railway accidents because of
> overwork of train crews, but that  is just the past, and surely not
> related to a recent plane crash, investigation of which revealed that
> pay for plane crews iso low that theu areunable to afford rent near
> airports and come to work already too tired to think straight.
>
> I think that's a reasonable selection of the minor horrors of the
> present world.
>
> And you really want to make a big fuss about somewone paying a frew
> thousand to gain work experience, or some other run-of-the-mill idiocy
> of life under capitalism.
> It  this little Huffintong caper were really worth concern, we could
> consider ourselves living in utopia.
> Tsk tsk.
>
> Carrol
>
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