We have faculty members who routinely teach individual study courses to help students graduate faster or learn material that would be individually useful. These courses are uncompensated.

What does this mean? It means that a professor works with 1-3 students per semester completely for free. Creates a syllabus, assignments, everything, completely for free. As a gesture of kindness and caring, such a professor donates free work in order to be helpful. Of course, students still pay for these courses. The price is exactly the same as for a regular course.

This sounds extremely profitable to the university, right? Get the students to pay while spending nothing on labor. The neoliberal university should love such professors, right?

Nope. Not right at all.

These professors are now being singled out for firing. They are being told gleefully that they deserve whatever they get for teaching these low-enrolled courses.

“But I did it to help! I only did it to help!” bleats a poor confused professor.

This is how the system works. Anybody who works for free is a sucker, a loser. Anybody who is kind, charitable and helpful is the worst of suckers. And suckers must be punished.

Money is not the main object of desire. Instead, the goal is to weed out the remnants of the previous era who still think in terms of community, helping others, and all that outdated, unnecessary stuff.

The existing world order died.

And you have to be either blind or an overly sentimental idiot to think that Trump is destroying something that is actually alive.

He is not destroying anything.

He is simply dragging a stinking corpse into the light.

This is not a revolution.

This is sanitary work.

– Oleksiy Arestovych.

It’s true. The post-1991 world order is dead. Globalization, hopes for the end of history that would make Western-style democracy uniform around the world, confident free-marketeering – they are all completely and utterly bankrupt.

This experiment failed. Let’s take that lesson and use it never again to fall into the same trap.

Prostitutes have joined the neoliberal “free trade” brigade:

I spent a year working on a factory floor assembly line and I cannot overstate how unpleasant it was. After the factory, sex work was a blessed escape https://t.co/K50ZPm9OwR

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 6, 2025

Yes, let’s not bring manufacturing back because being a whore is more fun anyway.

This depends on where you are in your inner development and how self-indulgent you are. It looks from the question that you are very advanced and not mired in self-indulgence like most people. That’s great, and I congratulate you.

The only thing that I’d correct here is the idea that following one’s whims is natural. We live in a whim-friendly culture, so we perceive indulgence as the norm. But it doesn’t have to be.

I recorded this video today, less than 50 hours after the surgery. I’m on no medication, so everything I say is completely conscious.

It’s about tariffs, and you have heard all this here on the blog first. But still, appreciate the discipline, appearance and self-control. If you see my eyes glaze over at times, it’s because I’m breathing through the pain.

The shock that it did fail to inspire the masses is fun to observe.

Notice, also, the COVID vibes in the air. The COVID hysteria also started in late March – early April and produced riots by the end of May. It was also an effort of the Zoom class to position itself as more virtuous and caring as the plebs delivering its packages and bagging their groceries.

Reich was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor. Together with Clinton, they laid the foundations for the following tragedy:

Reich was one of the main proponents of NAFTA, arguing that shipping jobs to Mexico would be great for US labor. Here’s an example of his statements from the Clinton era which readers of this blog will immediately recognize as neoliberal:

Great change demands great flexibility — the capacity to adapt quickly and continuously, to change jobs, change directions, gain new skills.

In the past few days Reich tried to show the flexibility that he so likes. He didn’t change jobs or gain new skills, remaining the rich, self-serving douche he always was. But he completely changed his opinion that “the stock market is not the economy”:

Still, there are limits to Reich’s flexibility. He still believes that shipping US jobs overseas is a wonderful idea. And workers who are affected should simply learn to be more flexible and embrace change.

Every neoliberal architect of de-industrialization and economic globalization is wailing that Trump’s tariffs are just absolutely horrible. That these people received no punishment for the horror they inflicted with their insane economic policies is shocking. That they still have an audience after everything they’ve done is even more so.

Reich is one angry neoliberal among many. They are currently wailing on social media, newspapers and TV like cats with chopped off tails. Something is causing their neoliberal souls a lot of pain. I, for one, am glad for it.

Exclusive: British police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms

Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety”https://t.co/fFfBvIlFBX

— Charlie Parker (@charliehparker) April 4, 2025

So how exactly was JD Vance wrong when he denounced this? Everybody on here knows that I’m not a fan of JD Vance but when he’s right, he’s right. A society where police come for people over online messages has gone very much off the rails.

Truly incredible that these are the descendants of Anthony Trollope’s characters who had more of a backbone that today’s Brits can begin to imagine.

Let’s say Trump is doing de-globalization and anti-free-marketeering incorrectly. But then why didn’t anybody try to do it correctly or in any other way? People who are so convinced that this isn’t the right way, what is their plan? What alternative are they suggesting besides continuing as is, with more “free trade”, more open borders, and more globalization?

De-industrialization and other neoliberal beauties have been ravaging us for over 3 decades. Why has nobody done anything to stop them? All these people who today claim to know exactly how Trump is mishandling his project. Why didn’t they do it right 10, 15, 20, etc years ago? Surely, there’s been enough time.

I’ve noticed this on a very small scale in my own life. Any project I’ve undertaken as an administrator, there was always a crowd of people ready to point out the erroneous way in which I was going about it and give lists of suggestions on how to do it better. They never do anything themselves, though. They know exactly how but somehow always fail to bring this exquisite knowledge of theirs into practice.

It is success that creates success and decay that produces decay.

Anthony Trollope, Dr Wortle’s School

My university’s administrators most certainly don’t understand what Trollope’s character Dr Wortle, a school director, understood so well. A school in a grip of an endless budget crisis that eliminates programs and can’t sustain its offerings isn’t attractive. People stop coming. We lost 18% of our students since these austerity cuts began. This is an exercise that tends towards zero.