abrownbear

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by abrownbear 6mo ago
Dope piece.
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Muskism as Fordism(lpeproject.org)
5 points by abrownbear 6mo ago|2 comments
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by abrownbear 6mo ago
"As we began our recent book about Elon Musk, we quickly realized that parallels between Musk and Ford are not primarily about personal biography. They are about what kind of societies their versions of political economy produce—and re
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by abrownbear 9mo ago
As AI makes it increasingly easier to build in-house systems, it seems like this kind of issue -- funneling billions of dollars to private contractors for eligibility verification software -- should be easily resolved. It would be cool if m
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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex(lpeproject.org)
2 points by abrownbear 9mo ago|1 comments
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by abrownbear 9mo ago
As always, the most important aspect of this story is scale: "Given the scale of the deportation agencies, there is simply no way for legal responses to keep pace with the lawless mass lockup. Unlike ICE, the habeas bar did not receive
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Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts(lpeproject.org)
103 points by abrownbear 9mo ago|13 comments
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by abrownbear 3y ago
"In our recent research, we document that mirroring the general rise in income inequality (documented by Piketty and his collaborators, among many others), there has been a similar concentration in individual campaign contributions. Fi
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What the SVB collapses teaches us about our monetary and banking systems(lpeproject.org)
1 points by abrownbear 4y ago|0 comments
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The Algorithmic Gamblification of Work(lpeproject.org)
2 points by abrownbear 4y ago|0 comments
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The Indian Country Abortion Safe Harbor Fallacy(lpeproject.org)
1 points by abrownbear 4y ago|0 comments
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The Antitrust Case Against Gig Economy Labor Platforms(lpeproject.org)
2 points by abrownbear 5y ago|0 comments
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by abrownbear 5y ago
Note that the article itself distinguishes between short-term and medium-to-long-term solutions. In the short-run, rent-control simply shifts power away from landlords. In the long-run, to maintain supply, you need to build more housing thr