#Labor

Progressivism lives on the largesse of liberalism. Liberalism operates within the bounds of conservatism.Progs may create, criticize, and complain only in a context that allows deviation from a norm.Libs afford
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POTUS often mentioned Lincoln at his rallies, something I have given much thought to. Lincoln guided a nation into one of the bloodiest times on our soil, and out of
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"They can just raise the price of a burger 25 cents to cover the new wage."If restaurants could raise prices with no consequence to sales, wouldn't they already have done
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Yet another creepy side of QAnon’s + the right’s obsession w/sex trafficking. The vast majority of trafficking is of people of color being trafficked for labor. The sex trafficking that
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this. exactly. meanwhile universities are decreasing pay through austerity budgets and firing adjuncts.if professors put all our digital labor onto an institutional LMS this semester we need to realize that
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New working paper! Joint with Daron Acemoglu, @JADHazell and @pascualrpo. "AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies" https://tinyurl.com/y2zgjusj . (1/7) What are the effects of AI on labor markets? Our bottom
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We need to be sober and rigorous when evaluating the positives and negatives of emergency UI, and not be wooed by simple, emotional stories. There's no evidence in the data
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1. I have been having conversations with academics, thinkers & journalists today spurred by my piece on the mobility of the 1% in @CityLab today. A few more thoughts based
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It's always been detached, and it's always made the real economy worse. [THREAD] 1/10https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1354464982981877762 What is profit? It's excess labor.You and your coworkers make a chair. Your boss sells th
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Alright, here's a quick thread on why US prisons are concentration camps. According to Oxford, the definition of a concentration camp is "a place where large numbers of people, especially
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As more details about WWE/Twitch stuff come out, the narrative needs to shift from “WWE wants the money” to “WWE has realized that third party things like Twitch give its
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Karen Kelsky put me on blast on her professional Facebook page for The Professor Is In. Some folks who know me have likely seen it by now. I acknowledge that
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Setting aside the big measurement issues, the EPI chart shown here is actually not about rising payments to capital (they acknowledge small role for decline of labor share) really this
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Just putting it out there but I really think the Labor party’s controlling idea for the next election should be “Let’s aim higher”. Scott Morrison is such a “near enough
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just a thought from tonight's results:maybe people don't need or want 11 dimensional chess that treats them like ballast.maybe they're just people living their lives in a world burning down
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Disabled cosplayers! Show me your cosplays and any accessibility aides that are visible in photos. I want to see you if you have invisible disabilities, too. There are so many
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