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Who Wants to Work?

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On July 21, 2022
Someone mentioned this thread in comments yesterday and it's worth a full post. It's a compendium of newspaper reports of capitalists claiming workers just don't want to work that goes back well over a century. Today, we see this again--and in fact, not just among...
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Louis Hyman is an excellent historian of capitalism, who wrote this book on temporary work, among other books. His op-ed today reminds us that while we focus on the New Deal's direct employment and labor law programs, (largely because they can serve a more socialist...

Self-Made

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On April 9, 2020

This is a very long but pretty complete history of the "self-made man," one of the most pernicious myths in American history. The true bard of this was the child.

“Lost”

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On August 24, 2019

Watching Uber and Lyft fall on their faces is hilarious. Everything about the fact that these companies are hemorrhaging money after all the hype says what you need to know.

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