![]() ![]() And for North America, it’s a fairly common systematic exploitation to get a job, you need a college degree- to get a college degree, you need a job to pay for it. That’s one system, an educational system that requires most people to leverage a large chunk of their future earnings to pay for it. In Ducks, Beaton revisits 2005, the time in her life just after she graduated from university and faced all of the student loans that she needed to get an art degree. These systems operate on a personal level, a gender level, a financial level, an ecological level, and even a socio-political level. There are many systems on display that look for ways to game both the work and the workers. ![]() There’s an active system in Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands that’s designed to exploit its workers. 5 min read Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly). ![]()
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