“Like the miller’s daughter in the fairytale, assetless student debtors had to spin gold out of straw – gold that’s somehow always already owed to someone else. All the Rumpelstiltskin market asked in return for pulling this amazing sum out of thin air was nine months of her labor, slaughtered, weighed, and priced to sell before it’s ever performed. Not even the living labor of indenture, but value stillborn, birthed cold.”

- Malcolm Harris, Arms and Legs

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