Virtue Hoarders
by Catherine Liu · first published 2021
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this was a pretty interesting recent read on pmc https://www.amazon.ca/Virtue-Hoarders-against-Professional-M... Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class - University of Minnesota Press
on “Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards” ↗Catherine Liu's short book Virtue Hoarders has this thesis, arguing that the class that this language is a marker of is the professional managerial class (PMC), a social class originally posited by the John and Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s. I…
on “Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative” ↗A good book in this topic, Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912253/virtue-hoarders/ https://classautonomy.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Foreru...
on “It's Cool to Care” ↗…do hope the No Kings protests can grow into a movement beyond Trump because he is just a symptom of a larger issue and the real “kings” are not elected officials, those people are just their servants. Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu is a great book on this topic.
…glad really that I got the ax on the 2nd round in 2023. (I was WFH semi remote. It's funny they tried to interview/rehire me in similar roles, but only for MPK or similar major hubs.) 0. Liu, Catherine. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1fkgbjx. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025. 1. https://youtu.be/PuIb4j_hxSw
on “Meta CTO says staff should quit if they don't like Meta's new policies” ↗Chris Hedges recently interviewed Catherine Liu, the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. They are a mostly invisible spectrum of plutocratic aristocracy who essentially replaced the middle class and gained immense wealth, power, and sense…
on “Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office” ↗