Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TODAY...
Think about all of today's advertisements that urge you to "Break the Mold," to "Topple the Tyranny" or to not do what the old bald men are telling you to do. The paradox and crisis of today, Frank would argue, is that you can break the mold and topple the tyranny all you want, but that's exactly what the corporate mold and tyrants want...
...Compare today's system to that of the fifties, in which employees might work for one company until they retired. Indeed, Willy Loman could not work for his company's competitors or a different industry. He had to sell item Y for company X or die trying. Thus, as we, graduating seniors, exploit the investment banks and the consulting firms in the name of career opportunities, we rebel against the old, more static career models. Our job market is one of tremendous horizontal and vertical mobility; to stay too long at one place just does not make good economic sense...
This model of mutual exploitation undoubtedly represents decades of research and refinement. Just as today's advertisement campaigns casually capitalize on counter-culture-subsuming themes such as "revolution" to arrive at the most efficient means of marketability, so too the consulting firms and investment banks use today's employment patterns to arrive at the most efficient means of labor-profitability...
...said Diarra K. Lamar '01, a member of the Crimson Key Member and Lowell House resident . "I am not sure if airing all of Harvard's questionable past is most productive, but one thing is certain: We need to understand the things that have shaped what Harvard is today to be able to motivate changes for tomorrow's Harvard. What is the forum for learning about Harvard's past? I don't know...