The Price of Everything...
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Two things conjoined randomly today: a piece in the Guardian online - I assume it was in today's Observer, but we haven't ventured forth for a print paper today - and a link that Joe sent me to a piece in The Conversation : an estimable online journal I've referred to before. The first refers to US author Sarah Jaffe's book 'Work Won’t Love You Back', in which she outlines the precarious and fragmentary state of the contemporary world of work and essentially how the world seems to hold the least socially valuable occupations in the highest esteem whilst treating the most essential as somehow inferior and unworthy of appropriate remuneration or security: viz the 'gig' economy etc. The second is about revenge: that of an online crowdsourced kick-back at Wall St. and that sub-class of traders known as 'short-sellers'. In the financial world, brokers and traders earn big bucks and are looked upon as shining exemplars of the beauty of the capitalis