One less quirky restaurant from Eugene’s hippy past, one more expensive student housing complex, and one more complication to Johnson Hall’s story that we can’t afford market pay for faculty and staff. Gina Scalpone has the story in the Eugene Weekly here.
Unaffordable education drives unaffordable housing drives debt drives precarity — pushing nearly everyone into increasingly impoverished wage-slavery. Congrats to neoliberalism for building this infrastructure to meet the demands of capital concentration, while incidentally sterilizing cities, immiserating life, and destroying the planet.
Wow, neoliberalism sounds pretty bad. What would you say the plus side has been?