#catherine_liu #catherine-liu
#wokeness #pmc #Professional-Managerial-Class
https://overton-magazin.de/dialog/der-kapitalismus-wird-die-wokeness-verwerfen-wenn-sie-ihm-nicht-mehr-dienlich-ist/
https://taz.de/Professorin-ueber-Wokeness/!5941899/

links in German - cannot find the interview with her any more :(
In a factory, all the workers have to take responsibility for all the other workers, because otherwise someone will lose their hand on the assembly line. In addition, the boss wants everything to go faster, while you want to work less, so your interests are fundamentally different. Even if you don't like the others, the production method forces you to stand with each other to improve your position.

In contrast, there are email jobs. For many PMC, it doesn't even matter how well they do their job. It's all about how you present yourself, namely as well-connected, friendly and helpful. So it's all about playing to the upper echelon of the hierarchy that you're good. It's about appearances. Out of that flows their obsession with culture and individual behavior, with emotional regulation, individual consumer decisions, expert knowledge, with virtue. You have to say the right thing to satisfy authority, not help each other. There is no liberal language of solidarity.

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