"Most of the pre-digital offers aren't available at any price: you could buy a DVD and keep it forever, even if you never went back to the store again. If you 'buy' a video on Prime or YouTube and then cancel your subscription and delete your account, you lose your 'purchase.' If you buy a print book, you can lend it out or give it away to a friend or a library or a school. Ebooks come with contractual prohibitions on resale…" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/#law-of-intended-consequences
"If they truly care for the national interests rather than the massive private profits and greed of Wall Street and the rail owners, then Congress should seriously consider nationalizing the railroads and running the essential rail network of our country as a national public treasure similar to the public Postal Service – and afford full collective bargaining rights for the workers." https://apwu.org/news/statement-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-congressional-action-against-union-rights-railroad
@ddayen there will be no TAP exclusive???
@SteveRoth This graph (from skeptonomist's comment https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=X9Rn is helpful). So yeah, household and establishment survey differ, but they usually parallel, their slopes are usually more similar than this year.
Update: Link to skeptonomist's comment https://jabberwocking.com/how-many-new-jobs-have-we-created-this-year/#comment-85738
A graph of household-survey-based vs establishment-survey-based US total employment numbers, showing an unusual difference in slope (with the HH survey much flatter than the increasing establishment survey) in 2022.
Is everybody taking two jobs or something? Why aren't stock vs flow employment measures lining up? See Kevin Drum https://jabberwocking.com/how-many-new-jobs-have-we-created-this-year/
"The reason powerful electeds dance when they say dance is so that they, their families, and their staffs all have lucrative careers to fall back on." @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2022/12/gambling-on-post-senate-career.html
I would really like a "raw" web search engine, just an SQL interface to an as-comprehensive-as-possible index of links.
SELECT title, last_modified, url FROM index WHERE content is like '%otter%' and content is like '%Iowa%' ORDER BY...
The service could offer all kinds of algorithms in clever, ORDER BY functions, but I'd get to choose which in my query (and can always go with ORDER BY last_modified DESC if I wish).
the day you get over your imposter syndrome is the day you become an imposter.
@oolon i paid for my subscription to a crypto tax-tracking software site in bitcoin one year, i think. a but self referential, but ostentatiously legit!
@fdr It means a lot to me!
[New Post] Betrayal https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9693.html
@phillmv yes. historically the fed has reacted to (pushed back against) unit labor costs, which helpfully mixes the price level and labor share, so oopsie! why has labor share declined? such a mystery. not accommodating real wage growth (but tolerating real wage declines) in a growing economy (without a population of workers growing faster than the economy) arithmetically defends capital share.
The Fed shouldn’t freak out over wage growth, but should work to keep it real by seeking (in cooperation with other agencies of government) profit margin compression.
@chrisp funny you should mention that… https://www.interfluidity.com/uploads/2020/11/jfi-social-weath-2020-11-10-light-edit.pdf but i’m not sure a long, slow ramp to ownership adequately addresses rent extraction and labor mistreatment in the immediate term.
Should the US just nationalize freight rail? Obviously, competition doesn’t meaningfully regulate the industry, when there is an effective duopoly in every region of the country. Absent market discipline, management from within is more effective at meeting social objectives than regulating clumsily from the outside. 1/
Certain “efficiencies” would be lost: The state could not employ workers on lean “PSR” terms. But that’s just another way of saying other stakeholders would have to bear costs now concentrated onto workers. And given the industry’s thick recent margins, the only stakeholder who need lose is the shareholders who would be cut off. We could make the industry better for both workers and shippers on shareholders’ and managers’ backs. Given how purely extractive they’ve become, why shouldn’t we? /fin
@brecht ( i've added it to my little list https://www.craft.do/s/xaDUGXM4x3KXHd )
@brecht ah, thanks! on other instances it's been public/local. i didn't check just public/
@CodingItWrong Looks like a goos start to a list. Thanks! https://www.craft.do/s/xaDUGXM4x3KXHd
@brecht (it looks like their local feed isn't public, they ask for a bit more of a commitment. have you created an alternative identity there?)
Are there instances whose local feeds you sample, besides your own?