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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Build It And I Will Pay For It
Pretty sure if I promise to pay for the wall on completion I'll never have to pay.
Suggestions
I spent the early afternoon consulting with the Evil League of Evil Labor Economists, and here were their suggestions for how to attract workers if you're having some trouble doing so.
a) Offer a higher wage. Yes, yes, wages, are so 20th century, but The Kids Today have a strange affinity for them. Maybe it's nostalgia. They even want dollars, and not Bitcoins or Applebucks.
b) Good health insurance. Weirdly, even though President Kenyan Muslim Socialist nationalized the health care industry, some Kids Today just aren't happy with their death panels and want their companies to buy redundant policies for them. Silly Kids Today.
c) Retirement benefits. Yes, yes, they've been watching too many old movies. Silent movies, starring Steve Simels mostly. But The Kids Today have these romantic notions that come retirement they won't have to do a Logan's Run or face their prescribed destiny. They've been told their whole lives that Social Security just won't be there for them so they need an alternative. Blame whoever keeps telling them that (shhh!!!!).
d) On the job training. It's true The Kids Today don't major in anything useful, unlike the Greatest Generation and the Second Greatest Generation and the Pretty Good Generation After That who all had degrees in Physics or Engineering before going on to work in opinion journalism, but that's the labor force you have to deal with. Might have to show them a thing or two.
e) Job Security. The Kids Today would like some assurances that their jobs might be around a few months hence. Yes that goes against everything the Washington Post opinion page has been telling you. Tenure of any kind is anathema to them. The job turnover there is brutal. It seems that every 20 or 30 years or so there's a new columnist!
It's going to take a lot to lure them from their parents' basements. But, sadly, that pesky 13th Amendment was ratified, or so they claim, so if you want The Kids Today to come work for you, sacrifices must be made.
a) Offer a higher wage. Yes, yes, wages, are so 20th century, but The Kids Today have a strange affinity for them. Maybe it's nostalgia. They even want dollars, and not Bitcoins or Applebucks.
b) Good health insurance. Weirdly, even though President Kenyan Muslim Socialist nationalized the health care industry, some Kids Today just aren't happy with their death panels and want their companies to buy redundant policies for them. Silly Kids Today.
c) Retirement benefits. Yes, yes, they've been watching too many old movies. Silent movies, starring Steve Simels mostly. But The Kids Today have these romantic notions that come retirement they won't have to do a Logan's Run or face their prescribed destiny. They've been told their whole lives that Social Security just won't be there for them so they need an alternative. Blame whoever keeps telling them that (shhh!!!!).
d) On the job training. It's true The Kids Today don't major in anything useful, unlike the Greatest Generation and the Second Greatest Generation and the Pretty Good Generation After That who all had degrees in Physics or Engineering before going on to work in opinion journalism, but that's the labor force you have to deal with. Might have to show them a thing or two.
e) Job Security. The Kids Today would like some assurances that their jobs might be around a few months hence. Yes that goes against everything the Washington Post opinion page has been telling you. Tenure of any kind is anathema to them. The job turnover there is brutal. It seems that every 20 or 30 years or so there's a new columnist!
It's going to take a lot to lure them from their parents' basements. But, sadly, that pesky 13th Amendment was ratified, or so they claim, so if you want The Kids Today to come work for you, sacrifices must be made.
I Wonder What They Didn't Think Of
Economists aren't right about everything, but they do have some pretty groundbreaking ideas about what employers can do to attract new workers into their professions/companies if they are having a difficult time hiring people. Maybe some economists should talk to these employers, because they apparently are unaware, as is the person who wrote the story.
They do have some cunning plans. Maybe they'll even work!
They do have some cunning plans. Maybe they'll even work!
But, he said, manufacturers need to romance them - to show them how their work on a product makes a difference, maybe keeping a jetliner aloft or a heart beating.
Mismatch
One of the phenomenon studied due to the suburbanization of employment was spatial mismatch, that there was a mismatch between where people lived and where jobs they were qualified to get were located. Roughly, for various reasons, less educated people lived in cities, without cars, and the jobs they would be able to get were in the suburbs, requiring either a car they didn't have or a nightmarish public transit commute to places with horrible public transit.(It was more complicated than this, of course, with enforced residential segregation and other types of racial discrimination having a large impact on location patterns).
As poverty moves to the suburbs, people are going to be in worst-of-both-worlds territory. They'll need a car for jobs, and for everything else, and cars are expensive things. And while there is no secret welfare system, it is the case that there are often more readily available social services and similar support systems - private and public - in some urban areas.
As poverty moves to the suburbs, people are going to be in worst-of-both-worlds territory. They'll need a car for jobs, and for everything else, and cars are expensive things. And while there is no secret welfare system, it is the case that there are often more readily available social services and similar support systems - private and public - in some urban areas.
Coffeafascism
Unlike Roy, I don't think this guy is actually laughing at "the dopes who take him seriously." He takes himself very seriously. Coffee cups disagreeing with him regularly is the kind of oppression that only a second home can make right. And in Rhode Island, he can get real American Coffee Milk, and not this euro-trash Frappucino bullshit.
No one tell him Rhode Island went 63% for Obama in 2012, even after the 4 years he spent destroying the country and putting propaganda on your paper cups.
No one tell him Rhode Island went 63% for Obama in 2012, even after the 4 years he spent destroying the country and putting propaganda on your paper cups.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Rhee Era
Rhee had everyone in DC convinced that she was saint and savior, the one woman capable of fixing the schools by opening a can of whoop ass (firing them) on the evil teachers and principals who stood in her way. Of course it was all bullshit.
Oh well, bygones. Not our fault, really, but boy did we get to pretend to care about those kids for a little while.
Oh well, bygones. Not our fault, really, but boy did we get to pretend to care about those kids for a little while.
And Let's Tell The Press About It
Campaign press strategies mystify me.
Who needs George Will?
Hillary Clinton’s advisers are talking to Donald J. Trump’s ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” seeking insights about Mr. Trump’s deepest insecurities as they devise strategies to needle and undermine him in four weeks at the first presidential debate, the most anticipated in a generation.
Her team is also getting advice from psychology experts to help create a personality profile of Mr. Trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage.
They are undertaking a forensic-style analysis of Mr. Trump’s performances in the Republican primary debates, cataloging strengths and weaknesses as well as trigger points that caused him to lash out in less-than-presidential ways.
Who needs George Will?
Monday, August 29, 2016
Donald Trump Lives In The Inner City
There are parts of Philly which aren't so different from the post-apocalyptic 1970s urban dystopia Trump keeps talking about. That is, parts the "inner city" where all black people live in Trump's imagination do exist, sort of. I don't think the lives of the people who live there are anything close to what he imagines, though he's probably correct if he thinks they don't all live in gold-plated homes. Still, high crime blighted poverty-stricken urban places do exist and African-Americans do disproportionately live in such places. Disproportionately does not mean "all" or "a majority of" but, hey, when Trump speaks nothing but infinite truth comes out. Just ask him.
Donald Trump has lived in the "inner city" basically his entire life. I know New Yorkers often think New York exists in another dimension, but there was a time when the "urban problems" of New York were as bad as anywhere, even in the nicer parts of Manhattan. Just ask Snake Plissken. But things change.
Donald Trump has lived in the "inner city" basically his entire life. I know New Yorkers often think New York exists in another dimension, but there was a time when the "urban problems" of New York were as bad as anywhere, even in the nicer parts of Manhattan. Just ask Snake Plissken. But things change.
Both Sides
I can't even bring myself to do the asshole olympics between the two - I'll just say that their alleged and actual actions are also not exactly comparable - but one was chosen by Donald Trump to be the "CEO" (whatever that is) of his campaign and one was not hired by Hillary Clinton to do anything.
The problem for Clinton team - after Democrats repeatedly pointed to Bannon personal past, going to be hard to argue Weiner is off limits
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 29, 2016
Sunday, August 28, 2016
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