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Even if we had the money to turn K-12 into K-16, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a good idea, either for our university system or for working-class Americans.

Instead, focus on changing the economy so people without 17 years of school can live a comfortable life.
I'm a big champion of expanding the university system. But turning it into the K-12 system won't be good for it. Or for anyone, really. We focus way too much on the education function of universities, and way too little on their research function.
Some people are responding "technology is going to eliminate all our jobs, so we may as well just stay in school forever". But so far there is no evidence that technology is leading to mass disemployment. This is still science fiction.

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One thing I think would help reduce elite Millennial burnout/disappointment/rage is for people to stop thinking that their job should save the world.

"Save the world" and "make the world a better place" are probably just things employers tell you to get you to work for cheap.
Maybe your job will give you meaning and purpose and a sense of doing good for the world.

Or maybe it'll just make you some money so you can raise some kids, have some pet rabbits, and be active in your local community.

There's more than one way to get meaning in life.
Also, people glorify saving the world when it probably just gives you PTSD.

We like watching Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and whatever, but we wouldn't want to actually fight Darth Vader or slog through Mordor. That would cause major burnout!
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1/Since Trump's demand for his Wall is in the headlines, I thought it would be a good time for a thread about a history book I just read:

"Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America", by Daniel Tichenor (2002)

amazon.com/Dividing-Lines…
2/The book starts out with a chapter or two of dense, unnecessary political science jargon, saying that - essentially - U.S. immigration policy tends to move very slowly, because powerful politicians and officials resist the tide of public opinion.
3/But most of the book is an extremely readable, eye-opening history of U.S. immigration policy, from the founding through the 1990s.

It shows how the immigration debates we're now having have been with us, in some form or another, for a very long time.
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Thread about why very high tax rates on very rich people don't raise much revenue (or reduce inequality much, even within the top tier).

Our system has a million loopholes. Closing them is more important than raising top rates.
That's not to say there's a trade-off between raising the top rate and closing loopholes! They are complements, not substitutes.

But if you just raise the top rate without closing loopholes, you'll likely be disappointed.
The fact is, raising effective taxes on the very rich will require a comprehensive sustained push on a large number of policy fronts. There is not going to be one silver bullet.
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I'm pretty sure I could accidentally go to a Red Robin 24 hours after ordering my food to go, and it still wouldn't be ready yet.
I think maybe all their to go orders print out on an old dot matrix in the attic, so when you show up to get your food, they have to send a bus boy up there and then try to cook it really fast.
And the first few bus boys never return, so it takes even longer.

That's the only explanation I can think of.
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1. Gotta disagree w/ much of @DavidAFrench here for underplaying the role that elites and major economic, political, civic & cultural forces have played in the fall of the American working class
nationalreview.com/2019/01/the-ri…
2. We know, for instance, that no class of people has experienced as dramatic a retreat from marriage as have the American working class since 1980. Look at these trends in nonmarital childbearing ⬇️
stateofourunions.org/2010/when-marr…
3. The dissolution and de-stabilization of working-class family life is not simply a reflection of people making bad choices or being ir-responsible. It's also about major changes in American society that have had a disparate impact on the working class and (earlier) the poor.
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This Day in Labor History: December 14, 1945. The Employment Act of 1946 is introduced in Congress. Let's talk about the need for full employment policy and why it has never happened, a very important issue for the present!
World War II ended the Great Depression. But policymakers knew that the war would end and they didn’t know what would happen to the economy. There was disagreement over the extent to which the underlying factors that led to the Depression had dissipated.
Many economists believed that the Great Depression was the natural state of a mature economy and would return without significant government intervention. This was a serious concern as the war ended, with widespread fears of a massive economic downturn.
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1 of the only podcasts I coulda talked abt the significance of po' white #RuthLangmore from @ozark wearing a #Tupac shirt.🔥🔥🔥
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