« Practitioners and proponents of OER can be viewed as paralleling the captive maternal dynamic in that they are trying to stabilize an educational system that has been systematically hollowed out through neoliberal practices. In their efforts to care for students, OER practitioners are creating mechanisms that enable the neoliberal state to continue implementing austerity measures. The labor of creating and deploying OER is, per James, labor that is being expropriated by the state. »

article is kind of loudly and inelegantly stating the obvious but this was a good paragraph

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2023/genealogy-of-open/