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by moorhosj 8y ago
It is possible that they think otherwise exactly because they already have skin in the game.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Are you suggesting something happened in February to change things or just using the most convenient time frame? Data on BLS shows wages going from $26.34 in July 2017 to $27.05 in July 2018 [1]. That is 2.7% wage growth. CPI data from July
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Unless you already have a family to care for, or can't afford to stop working for 3 years to take classes, or can't afford health insurance, or any of a million other reasons that life may not be as simple as you make it out. If e
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by moorhosj 8y ago
>as long as they believe the government will alter the labor market for them, they're unlikely to take a risk on wage increases. This wouldn't explain all of the times throughout history when companies did increase wages during
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If workers didn’t accept those wages they would be destitute. Companies (capital) hold all of the power in our current economic system, it hasn’t always been like this in the US and isn’t in many other countries.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Companies have been making that same complaint for 5 years, wages still stagnate.
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Which people continue to explain is perfectly legal because twitter is NOT the government.
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Now we have moved the goalposts from banning people to giving blue checks. I'm not even sure what stance you are arguing anymore. One more time, Twitter is not the government. Mike Cernovich is outwardly racist and has a blue check, wh
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==The Marsh case handles a scenario in which a private company controlled the public space.== and acted as a de-facto government by providing fire, police and other services typically provided by governments. Twitter is not similar, as mult
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Any evidence of these claims? From my view, people have plenty of trust in statistics, they just make sure the stats reinforce their pre-existing bias first.
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Not at all, no idea where you got that idea. The discussion is about the right of the government to force private companies to do things with their own property. The AOL case is more relevant because it involves a private internet company a
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by moorhosj 8y ago
At the bottom of your Wikipedia article there is a more relevant case: "While the Marsh holding at first appears somewhat narrow and inapplicable to the present day due to the disappearance of company towns from the United States, it w
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==Freedom of speech isn't just saying what you want while alone on your back patio.== It's also not going onto other people's property and doing whatever you want. Having a successful platform doesn't make them the gover
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Sure, but the discussion is about the fringes. The US has a higher poverty rate than most other developed nations. Poverty isn’t unique to American life, but it impacts a larger percentage of Americans than in French, Brits or Australians.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I'm not following your comment, Federal student loans started in 1958 [1] but costs didn't start to skyrocket until the late-80s/90s. Since the late-80s costs have more than tripled at public universities after adjusting for
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by moorhosj 8y ago
== That would give financiers pause and would put an upper bound on what many universities could charge.== It would also limit the pool of people who could get a loan for college in the first place. Maybe we can take a page from other devel
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==Whether it's some version of ensuring a worker advocate is on the board of a corporation or that some kind of coop ownership scheme gives employees voting rights, hell I have no idea, but pay inequality won't change on its own.=
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Why would we care about the answers to these questions other than for regulation?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this chart. You are right that things jumped on 2000, but I'm not so sure it is outside the broader trendline. For example, it went from 8.2% of GDP in 1980 to 11.3% by 1990.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Removing "even" from that sentence certainly changes the tone if not the intent, but your point is taken. Did you respond to the original commenter about posting blatant dis-information, as the information requested was in the art
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You assume that the ratio of buildings to locals is the sole input for real estate prices. If an external rentier enters the market and realizes yield, other rentiers will follow. This increases demand for housing assets, not necessarily ho
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==So it's likely QE has led to a general devaluing of the dollar that would lead upward pressure on all prices.== QE started 10 years ago, why is it only showing up in the "all prices" data now? Inflation was historically low
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==I don't recall hearing it framed as an attempt to push investors into taking on more risk?== Because that was never the goal. Investors are taking more risks because they have to in order to find return in a world where the interest
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==This information is conspicuously absent from the article.== Did you read the article? This part seems to answer your question: "The FCC's lies to Congress were contained in letters Pai sent to lawmakers but were based on the as
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by moorhosj 8y ago
This is similar to college students who study “consulting” as a discipline. Certainly there are important things to learn about consulting strategies. However, if you aren’t a subject matter expert in the field you are consulting, I don’t w
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Wow, this is right in my town and I had no idea! Kind of re-enforces my point as I am their prime market and not familiar with them at all. On second glance, it looks like I don't qualify, which is probably a barrier for larger market
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by moorhosj 8y ago
It seems there is a huge opportunity for someone to “disrupt” our banking system beyond saving fractional dollars and cheap trading. A simple, online only (or mostly, like Schwab) credit union could find a big audience. It could be marketed
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==And yet very few people who are aware of that case will even think of applying the same approach to other typically-nationalized industries.== Airlines were also deregulated and it hasn't really led to a "boom". Lots of ban
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==and has many classically conservative policies.== Please expand on this statement. From my perspective, I see someone who supports tariffs, closed borders, increased debt, increased spending, handouts for specific industries ("pickin
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==That's because Trump is a conservative== Based on what criteria? ==Do you really need evidence US media is anti-Trump? Can you name any large, well known newspapers that endorsed him?== Is the second part actually evidence of the fir

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