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  1. @fivetonsflax @ren @researchfairy
    One interpretation/prediction by #TheBaffler etc is that the only people who can afford to be #journalists now has been filtered out by class through unpaid internships and low wages in expensive cities

    So you can’t afford to be a journalist unless you are well off enough to do it as a vanity project (so won’t likely have a class consciousness)

    Or if you’re so obsessed with the career that you’re not willing to risk your job by rocking the boat

  2. Trevor Jackson: impunity tends to be the result of 3 problems: culpability (elites or heads of state are seldom personally responsible for any crimes); precedent the human imagination for wrongdoing consistently outstrips laws & regulations) &scale (legal systems are better equipped to handle individual crimes instead of social ones).

    In #thebaffler #xp

    thebaffler.com/latest/no-conse