Tag: skill-estate
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Finally a bit of sanity!
Elle Griffin writes some SANITY about college. Even better, she’s writing about a FEW colleges that have reverted to the Anderson model. They’re not tiny startups; they’re big universities with lots of money available. = = = = = START QUOTE: BYU is followed by a dozen colleges and universities hoping to do the same—among…
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Stoller grasps Gosbank
Matt Stoller is getting close to the Gosbank solution. He’s discussing Boeing, with a complete and accurate history. He concludes that the government needs to BUY Boeing and redistribute its production to benefit American workers instead of American shareholders. On the dot. In the Soviet system the government provided the FINANCE and also made the…
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Not your campaign 2
Fortune mag says the anti-DEI movement has gone mainstream. In all of these cases, ideologues are mischaracterizing the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Their strategy is working: critiquing DEI has become more mainstream. Increasingly, even people who likely support some of the most common and visible examples of these efforts (parental leave, fair…
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The Tocqueville shared lie
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Listening to a second-string Repooflican radio talker. He’s running the same old tape about The Forty-Seven Percent, the same old line about Voting Largesse From The Public Treasury. He’s saying that Obama is guaranteeing perpetual D majorities by offering lots of free…
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Another shared lie
In 1948 a Chevy sales film mentioned Volkswagen as an icon of Hitler. Twenty years later the actual car was the enemy in this 1973 film aimed at GM factory workers. It cites the losses in various other industries. Textiles were mostly gone. Home radios and TVs were all gone. 20% of autos were foreign.…
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Da yoots has got it right.
The Progressive Policy Institute (Will Marshall’s outfit) surveyed young working class folks. If the poll is valid, it shows a remarkably accurate understanding, despite all the toxins spewed by R and D media for decades. These people want Democrats to be like FDR and want Repooflicans to be like Ike. A couple of specific questions:…
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No, it’s not neofeudalism
I’ve made this point before. It’s worth repeating. Everyone is referring to the gig economy as neofeudalism. The personalities are unquestionably feudal, the same insane inbred incestuous imbecilic aristocrats who ruled Europe for 500 years. The system is the exact opposite. Feudalism was based on TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS. The lord was required to support his serfs…
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Misdirected
Big Entertainment is fading. The tech tyrants who bought it know it’s fading. They’re happy to let it fade. That’s why they bought it. LBO. The Hollywood unions acquired solid contracts from the dying dinosaur, but the contracts don’t mean much. The contracts will help the dinosaur to fade, and the tech tyrants will be…
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Hoel’s insight
Now that the OpenAI soap opera has turned out to be solely a Microsoft soap opera, Erik Hoel writes a rigorous economic discussion of the true potential of AI. He reaches two parallel conclusions: (1) The jobs that AI can replace are low-wage jobs or ‘open-source’ jobs like editing Wikipedia or writing drab repetitive music.…
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Jefferiad
Jeffrey Tucker writes a proper jeremiad. (Jefferiad?) = = = = = START QUOTE: Such “public health” measures were not even within the range of possibility outside the worst dystopian fiction. And yet it all happened in a flash, all with the assurance that The Science demanded it. None of the institutions on which we…
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Trading, not eating
Repeating the old story: There was a speculative mania in sardines. A shortage pushed up prices, and before long there was an enthusiastic trade in tinned sardines. Then one day a buyer decided to open a can and eat a sardine or two. He got food poisoning and complained to the seller. The seller responded:…
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Sohrab carries FDR’s spirit
Sohrab Ahmari, sane and realistic as always, suggests how the Repooflicans could get along with unions. = = = = = START QUOTE: Beginning in the 1970s, pro-business Republicans—and some like-minded Democrats—tore down a New Deal order characterized by a high-wage, manufacturing-oriented economy and high union density. Free trade, deregulation, and de-unionization went hand-in-hand to…
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Not learning
Suckers are still spreading the fake threat that AI will become fully independent and take over the world. They overthink and overwrite, inventing thousands of terms and diagrams and organizational charts and algorithms to “prove” how it can happen. Calling Doc Ockham! It’s physically impossible and IRRELEVANT. The large-scale AI is ALREADY owned by Gates…
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Simmering 2
The simmering metaphor in previous item reminded me of a picture I’ve been wanting to make. Back in 1970 when I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the larger world. I…
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Soap opera continues
Now Satan is back at OpenAI and Microsoft is still the major shareholder. My initial guess, after Satan’s first fake return: So the whole stageplay was orchestrated by Sam to get rid of a board that wasn’t following his orders instantly and perfectly. OpenAI now becomes a standard tech company where the founder is the…
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