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🧵 THREAD about probably one of the BEST discussions about social value of work, economic wealth and fairness in a while.
40 mins with @amolrajan, @PJTheEconomist @elerianm @KGerlich777 Louise Casey
@davidgraeber 🗣️ "The more your job helps others, the less you get paid"
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Reminded me of @euan_lawson for @BJGPjournal quoting Michael Sandel on meritocracy: https://t.co/tAl6sobtKW
🗣️ "In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe...
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🗣️ "...they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work.… at a time when racism and sexism are out of favor (discredited though not eliminated), credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice."
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@PJTheEconomist over the last 20 years:
⬇️ 30% per person spending on social care
⬆️ 100% more hospital doctors.
No extra GPs - actually the number of full time equivalents is dropping: https://t.co/n20woUk0Wu
And they aren't equally distributed either (inverse-care law)
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When we look at care work @KGerlich777 talks about care sector:
➡️ How it is heavily gendered? 80% women
➡️ How poorly it is paid and misconceptions about what it involves.
Louise Casey explaining needed huge reform and re-structure
🧵 THREAD about probably one of the BEST discussions about social value of work, economic wealth and fairness in a while.
40 mins with @amolrajan, @PJTheEconomist @elerianm @KGerlich777 Louise Casey
@davidgraeber 🗣️ "The more your job helps others, the less you get paid"
Wow: thanks for the humbling response #RETHINK on @BBCRadio4
— Amol Rajan (@amolrajan) January 4, 2021
Superb guests were @PJTheEconomist, @elerianm, Louise Casey, and Karolina Gerlich from the Care Workers' Charity.
But most credit to the producers: Louise Hidalgo, Derrick Bennett, Ros Jones https://t.co/vYHRDHvihq
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Reminded me of @euan_lawson for @BJGPjournal quoting Michael Sandel on meritocracy: https://t.co/tAl6sobtKW
🗣️ "In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe...
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🗣️ "...they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work.… at a time when racism and sexism are out of favor (discredited though not eliminated), credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice."
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@PJTheEconomist over the last 20 years:
⬇️ 30% per person spending on social care
⬆️ 100% more hospital doctors.
No extra GPs - actually the number of full time equivalents is dropping: https://t.co/n20woUk0Wu
And they aren't equally distributed either (inverse-care law)
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When we look at care work @KGerlich777 talks about care sector:
➡️ How it is heavily gendered? 80% women
➡️ How poorly it is paid and misconceptions about what it involves.
Louise Casey explaining needed huge reform and re-structure