<img attachment="funny-duolingo-bird-memes-11-5ca4be5d4d890_700.jpg" align="right">DuoLingo is teaching my partner and I something about neoliberal capitalism. She is in the Diamond League (very prestigious). It treats her like chattel. She has to do sooooo much work to stay in the league. I, on the other hand, am also in the Diamond League, but I have to do hardly any work at all to stay there. Sometimes I do one lesson a day for a couple, three days in a row. No biggie. No demotion. Nobody's working too hard in my chapter of the Diamond League. My partner, on the other hand, has to earn 10x the points I do just to stay in the league. She's running to stay in place. The classic rate race. Me, on the hand? I'm like George Bush, I was born on third, and think I hit a triple. I get the exact same accreditation as she does with 1/10 of the work. There are tournaments occasionally. She literally had to give up trying to into it because she needed another 1,000 points just to get in -- whereas I'd only gotten about 800 points <i>total</i> and was sitting comfortably in third place. There's the lesson about neoliberal capitalism. If I didn't know her or her situation, I would just assume that she's not trying hard enough, secure in the knowledge that I wouldn't have what I have if didn't deserve it.