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Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoWhy are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips
Addressing inequality requires questioning the overrepresentation of straight white American men in power rather than focusing solely on the underrepresentation of marginalized groups.
Education
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoThe class divide that nobody maps is the one between people who were taught to call authorities when something goes wrong and people who were taught that calling authorities makes everything worse. Both groups are navigating the same systems with completely opposite instruction manuals. - Silicon Canals
Childhood experiences shape how individuals interact with authority and systems, influencing their responses to crises throughout life.
Right-wing politics
fromFortune
1 month agoEconomists agree: You're not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the 'K-shaped economy' | Fortune
The K recovery illustrates a growing economic divide where the wealthy prosper while the poor struggle, echoing historical patterns of inequality.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe people who say 'I'm not political' at work aren't neutral. They've already read the entire power map and decided that visible alignment is more dangerous than silent observation. That's not disengagement. That's the most political move in the room. - Silicon Canals
Neutrality in workplace politics often reflects a strategic calculation rather than genuine disinterest, revealing deeper dynamics of influence and power.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe people who thrive in corporate environments and the people who burn out often have the same intelligence. The difference is that one group learned early how to read which rules are real and which rules are decoration. - Silicon Canals
Understanding both formal and informal organizational rules is crucial for thriving in a workplace.
fromIndependent
1 month agoThis Working Life: 'It has been interesting to see how much your status and self-perspective are tied up with your job'
I was 17 when I went to study law in UCD in 1990. At school in Boyle, Co Roscommon, I was interested in science and biology, but I did not take up the CAO offer to study genetics in Queen's as I was scared of maths.
Law
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe most expensive thing about growing up poor isn't what you couldn't afford. It's the decision-making architecture it installs, where every choice runs through a scarcity filter that adds cost to options other people experience as free. - Silicon Canals
Financial scarcity significantly impacts cognitive performance, altering decision-making processes and creating a lasting influence on individuals' choices beyond material deprivation.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe real class divide isn't between rich and poor. It's between people who were taught the world will accommodate them and people who were taught to accommodate the world. Both are right about the world they grew up in. - Silicon Canals
Social fluency stems from early life experiences, not wealth, shaping expectations of how the world responds to individuals.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThere's a version of class that has nothing to do with education or wealth - it belongs to people who grew up with very little but treat everyone like they matter, from the CEO to the person cleaning the bathroom - Silicon Canals
People from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often exhibit greater compassion and generosity due to their understanding of struggle and invisibility.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoThe reason you feel like you're falling behind isn't burnout - it's a class architecture designed to make upward mobility feel possible while making it structurally impossible - Silicon Canals
Persistent feelings of inadequacy stem from societal narratives about mobility that promise success through individual effort while maintaining structural barriers that prevent actual advancement.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhat Is 'Mogging'?
Mogging is Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang for dominating or outshining others-usually in terms of appearance, fitness, or straight-out cockiness. It comes from the acronym for Alpha Male of the Group, namely AMOG. And you'll see it all over TikTok.
Digital life
fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoHow America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Since Richard Nixon was forced to resign, powerful people in both political parties have worked assiduously to ensure that their leaders would escape the consequences of their actions. Trump has evaded punishment for crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) and high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss, for which he was spared by the Supreme Court's decision to grant him a kingly immunity).
US politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months agoThe Tyranny of Disciplines
RST: Good morning, my dear hard-boiled egg. Did you have a good trip to Austin, upholding the patriarchy and extolling the manly virtues of the Western canon? EGG: You are so irritating. Old white men need to have a little space in the lexicon of human endeavors. I stand for all of them. So there!! RST: 🤮 There's been a theme in the responses I'm hearing from people about this column, and it has to do with bodily functions and fluids.
Higher education
Right-wing politics
fromemptywheel
1 month agoThe Wisdom Of The Subservient Class - emptywheel
Conservatism has failed as a rightist sect of liberalism, functioning merely as reactive opposition to other liberal factions while protecting elites from democratic constraints rather than conserving substantive values.
#workplace-culture
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThere's a specific kind of competence that looks like confidence but is actually fear wearing a very expensive suit. And most workplaces promote it because they can't tell the difference. - Silicon Canals
Organizations often reward the performance of certainty under pressure rather than actual competence, creating a gap between appearing knowledgeable and building genuine expertise.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoThe Politics of Looking Away
Like us, you may feel paralyzed in the face of the relentless images of violence we see every day. Suffering children, military occupations, the devastated neighborhoods, the cries of parents mourning their dead-these scenes haunt us. Whether it is happening in Palestine or Minneapolis, we are witnesses to suffering, and that witnessing takes a heavy toll. Clearly, the devastating situations in the West Bank and Gaza and in Minneapolis differ
Social justice
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoYour email sign-off is quietly telling your coworkers exactly where you fall on the class ladder-the people above you noticed it on day one and the people beside you have the same one and that's not a coincidence - Silicon Canals
Email sign-offs function as class markers: higher-status individuals use terse sign-offs while lower-status individuals use more polite, lengthy closings.
fromApaonline
1 month agoGood Work and Class Conflict
Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a "means of life" in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human life. It is the activity by which we reproduce ourselves from day to day, from year to year, from generation to generation. But work also forms, so to speak, much of the matter of human life, at least for most people in any society with which we are familiar.
Philosophy
fromFast Company
1 month agoWhy strong leaders lose credibility in high-stakes moments
What most leaders label as a content problem is actually a presence problem. Leaders often assume credibility rises and falls based on wording alone. In reality, credibility is shaped by executive presence, which reflects the signals leaders send about confidence, clarity, and authority before their ideas are fully heard.
Psychology
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