🌿Sprout — Growing

The American Education System and Abusive Work Environments

The argument that schooling produces workplace-abuse tolerance Bowles & Gintis’s correspondence principle is the foundational claim here: they argued school structure isn’t incidentally similar to workplace structure, it’s designed to mirror it — hierarchical authority, rewards for compliance over creativity, fragmented tasks, external motivators (grades) standing in for intrinsic ones (pay), and a legitimizing ideology […]

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🌱 Planted Jul 1, 2026

🌿Sprout — Rooting

Building the World of Once

It began, as so many things do, with a map. I began with a world already dreaming — fairytales stitched together at the borders, folklore pressed up against mythology, a realm where Neverland sits in the Cerulean Sea and Narnia shares a mountain range with the Highlands and somewhere in the Impassible Desert, a boy […]

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🌱 Planted Jun 13, 2026