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i.e. prepare for anti-Trump neg ads drawing from rich mine of oppo twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/…
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CATO arg. that Soc Sec/Medicare shld be counted as “welfare” seems bogus. Both arguably work-tested. Not like TANF twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
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Good points. But can’t decide who/how many 2 admit until get control of border-why wall/e-Verify/visa track are crux twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
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.@Neil_Irwin: Serious ?-Why isn’t immigration a big enough possible factor in labor supply slack for NYT to confront (refute, or confirm)?
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Jeb! offering “special VIP experience” in NY to top bundlers. wpo.st/mAJZ0
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Jeb! seems to be at the can’t-do-anything-right stage of campaign. Worried that next stage in cycle is the comeback. twitter.com/elisefoley/sta…
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Don’t forget big @EricCantor/Jeb! endorsement tour scheduled for tomorrow. Is it still on? Live coverage?
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.@politico identifies key Baudrillardist support for Trump in CA. More at @POLITICOPro #augustissupposedtobeover politico.com/story/2015/09/…
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TRUMP HATERS FOR TRUMP! “Pollsters don’t know how many of these voters are out there”–because there are 3 of them? twitter.com/PrimeNewYork/s…
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“No one on the right has argued in favor” of open borders? Hello? commentarymagazine.com/2015/09/01/the… via @Commentary
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Ah, but throw in Social Security privatization … twitter.com/fredbauerblog/…
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Free metaphor here for the taking! Not “anti-immigrant.” But need to go on immigration diet … twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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All coming back to me! !slate.com/articles/news_… Bush retreated to Pozen plan (w/ privitization fig leaf) B4 giving up twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…
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Never thought of Kasich as a corporatist, but that is the basic pitch of don’t-rock-boat corporatism, no? @TPCarney twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…
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Faced with need to promote at least one GOP idea, he picks this proven political loser (also misguided). Oy twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…
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Hey, at least she’s not sucking up!/”Mills also stood out for forwarding emails to Clinton that praised her own work” politico.com/story/2015/09/…
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Why Liberals Should Learn to Love Charter Schools thebea.st/1MZXlPD
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¡Jeb! lunges for the empty open-borders slot in the GOP primary. He seems to have decided to go down Jebbing. twitter.com/MarcACaputo/st…
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A libertarian (characteristically) fails to come to grips with the real threat of automation … kausfiles.com/2015/08/31/fut…
40 Future Trend: Servility!
Robots and Social Equality: In Reason, Ronald Bailey concedes that “automation has taken over a lot of the routine physical and intellectual tasks that once were done by middle-income workers.” This has “resulted in a more polarized economy, where highly skilled workers in such fields as infotech and biotech are richly rewarded while a greater proportion of the workforce toil at relatively lower-paying service jobs.” [E.A.]
But don’t worry! The prosperity created by robotic achievements will lead to “a rising demand for services, involving non-routine tasks in which workers have a comparative advantage over machines—ones requiring interpersonal interaction, flexibility, adaptability, and problem-solving. ”
Like, what services, for example? Bailey cites MIT economist David Autor:
Work, he argues, is evolving away from assembly-line rigidity and back toward a more pre-industrial paradigm populated by “new artisans.” Perhaps more chefs will prepare fine meals in the homes of clients, dramatists devise elaborate virtual environments as entertainment, tailors create one-of-kind bespoke garments. [E.A.]
Hmm. Notice anything about these “pre-industrial” jobs? Maybe that at least two of the three involve a servile relationship to someone on the right side of the “more polarized economy”? One reason arguments like Bailey’s seem so sterile and unconvincing is that he (like many libertarians) doesn’t even consider that this might be a problem.
Maybe there’s an answer to this fear of servility, After all, some servants are upwardly mobile rather than self-effacing ( see: Affleck, Ben; nanny). And if everybody is providing artisanal services to everybody else, one man’s master one day can be his bespoke tailor the next. In theory. But it’s hard to see how a polarized economy produces that sort of universal hybrid part-time servility — especially when many people who have the skills to work effectively on an assembly line don’t have the skills for “adaptability and problem solving,” let alone sucking up to clients in their homes.
I say worry.
P.S.: And no, mass unskilled immigration won’t help.
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Don’t quite see how sugar quotas survive legal invasion of Mexican Coke (uses sugar, not fructose, tastes 3X better)
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Don’t forget Archer Daniels Midland (makes fructose, wants sugar expensive) cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-24… twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Explainer! twitter.com/FieldRoamer/st…
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Term “anchor babies” survives @NYT “myth” busting in good shape. (There are “closer to” 300,000, not 400,000!) nyti.ms/1Jqxo9A
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I see a problem with “Jubio”! How about “Jebio”? twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/…