@WIRED argues on behalf of its own 'class', the class of the creative.* What those masses at university learn now is standard in any of Amazon's fulfillment centers. Since time is money in capitalism learning got to be faster, selection got to be stricter, performing got to be 
optimized. Wired texts: But the "more creative answers take time and money", so "complex work" is needed and therefore "we'd need to put more money into the big public institutions". To get more out of it. We're not "cheating ourselves", it is the cognitive wage workers on
the shoulders of bullshit work(ers), bringing the pizzas, washing the cars, cleaning the desktops at the offices. The working poor is substructure as the graduates only think they're not to be proctored. But this is not surveillance capitalism, it is plain and simple capitalism
in its form of a taylorism for the intellect that is far from being general (Karl Marx) but private - i.e. property. The optimized university would be an investment pro 'cognitive capitalism'. Wired wants nothing but a new cybernetic deal for its own sake.
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