>In the United States, race is inextricably bound up in economic outcomes. To pretend that race is separable from a person's experience here is intellectually n

>In the United States, race is inextricably bound up in economic outcomes. To pretend that race is separable from a person's experience here is intellectually negligent Race is inextricably bound up in economic outcomes, but the author appears to be more than just acknowledging it - Peter Temin, the cisgendered white male boomer, is using it as a scapegoat for other, larger structural causes of poverty - namely the power and wealth of the 1%. The "top 20%" (e.g. programmers like us) also appears to be another scapegoat stand in. Asserting that programmers were the ones actively keeping the minimum wage down "just because we're white", using a thin veneer of academic legitimacy, is way worse than just intellectual negligence: it's class war.