Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
remember Donald Trump?
Screenshot of Elon Musk attention-whoring as Kekius Maximus on X.
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Screenshot of Elon Musk attention-whoring as Kekius Maximus on X.
Steve Randy Waldman
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one thing this piece is very good about is explaining how the system under which firms like Boeing were built is very different from the system under which firms like Boeing have been dismantled, even though both systems get called “capitalism”.
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“we” require exploitation/ segmentation to cover the burden of sizable migrations from poor countries to rich. 1/
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but employment-based visas, which H-1B proponents characterize their program as being, bringing in necessary talent, are not controversial even without an exploitation surplus… 2/
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because it’s pretty credible that this upscale population imposes little fiscal burden and places little downward pressure on native labor markets. 3/
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H-1B is an unpersuasive mashup of upscale employment-based visa and downscale exploitation based visa. it’s sold as the former, but has effects like the latter, but without segmentation. 4/
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it’s certainly conceivable that the public will come to demand we extract more of a surplus from employment-based visa holders, that upscale immigration will become unpopular on the theory good employment is scarce here and they compete. 5/
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if that’s the case, we’ll have to have a conversation about how we want to extract a surplus from EB visa holders, perhaps some tax native workers don’t pay that funds popular benefits, for example. so far, though, H-1B is understandably a lower-hanging target for immigration restrictionists. /fin
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i’m not interested in organizing people into caricatures like “the left”, but Gaza. lots of people of goodwill who really would have appreciates Biden’s economic work had a hard time saying nice things because Gaza. here’s me: drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/10/a...
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they don’t. you get a green card, participate in the ordinary labor market.
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[new draft post] Segmentation fault drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/12/31/s...
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Heavens to Betsy!
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you couldn’t use it as a full replacement search engine. it searches a limited curation of sites, not eg commercial sites.
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wiby: a kind of search engine for the old-school web wiby.me
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wiby: a kind of search engine for the old-school web wiby.me
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the enemy of your frenemy is what now?
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boxing without regulation is just beating. what is commerce without regulation?
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just because you disagree with someone and their poast doesn't mean they are the person you want to spend a lot of fighting with and taking down. you have better targets than that. and the person whose post you dislike is with you against those better targets.
Steve Randy Waldman
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yes, but what did Aileen Cannon have to say?
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there isn't anything in this world that is free to read. reading taxes readers' time and attention. it's a miracle they sometimes let themselves be taxed in money on top of that.
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Freddie DeBoer says nice things about my sister's book. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/2024-in-re...
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i'm perhaps ill-equipped.
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all else equal, kind. but i don't want them to be hungry, or to suffer from precarity and self-loathing.
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am i crippling my child's future life chances by discouraging narcissism and mendacity?
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Organizing leadership by seniority is an important part of the incumbency bias of the US Congressional elections. Voters understandably choose representatives that will have influence over representatives who will not. Under seniority-based leadership rules, only incumbents have influence.
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(deleted and reposted to fix an oopsie. sorry about that!)
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(and i wish i could do it again! but too many reactions now.)