While I still maintain a sympathy with both sides of the Grafton/Lemisch debate, it’s quite clear from the tape above that Jesse understands the problem better than most people do. There is no job crisis. There has been a deliberate restructuring of demand by people who want you to believe that the dearth of tenure-track jobs in history is a given, kind of like cold weather in Chicago in January.
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