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Athena Lathos
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Athena Lathos writes Bertha Mason's Attic, a personal blog at berthamasonsattic.wordpress.com about writing and career. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Humanities Marketplace as a Circle of Hell”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on the economics of college, with a post on how higher education's business model extracts value from students. The one comment only questions whether it is a bubble.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Athena Lathos is a writer and editor from Santa Maria, California currently living in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Her work can be found in 45th Parallel and Verseweavers, and her essay "I Applied for 200 Jobs and All I Got Was This Moderate-Severe Depression" was chosen as an Editor's Pick on Longre
Most-linked posts?
- The Humanities Marketplace as a Circle of Hell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-19
What Hacker News says?
What makes you think it's a bubble? Just because something is unpleasant, or even outright evil doesn't make it a bubble. Perhaps at some point an equilibrium is reached where these institutions extract exactly as much as the degree is worth, minus the little bit left that will incentivize people to take the deal. After all, the 'value' of these degrees has only gone up. Overproduced malthusian elitehood[0] has to b…
Comment linking /2018/10/12/i-applied-to-200-jobs-and-all-i-got-was-this-moderate-severe-depression/?src=longreads
on “The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands”Submitted The Humanities Marketplace as a Circle of Hell as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I Applied to 200 Jobs and All I Got Was This Moderate-Severe Depression” as a story · 3 points
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