Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?
Labor exploitation, higher education edition.
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Read more...I am very much saddened by the death of Michael M. Thomas, from old money and high finance, and vocally unimpressed by them.
Read more...An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US.
Read more...Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...A data analysis disproves the liberal myth that the Tuskegee experiment is why black vaccination rates lag, as opposed to (gah!) class.
Read more...Climate change activists too often wind up bypassing core issues. Here are a couple of them.
Read more...Industrial policy is an idea whose time has arrived in DC. Too bad the thinking seems stuck in the fad-chashing phase.
Read more...More voters recognize that the Democrats will do squat about expanded health coverage like Medicare for All unless they feel some heat
Read more...The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.
Read more...The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
Read more...Yves here. Two things about increased automation frost me. One is its stealth or main purpose as forcing planned obsolescence. So irrespective of the impact on job/labor content, any savings won’t necessarily accrue to users. Two is automation/AI serving as an excuse to shift costs and tasks onto consumers. How many times do customer service […]
Read more...Monopoly iencourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those its inventor intended to champion.
Read more...Biden goes after non-compete agreements….but will this effort make a difference?
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