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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
sorry but “who makes the schedules” has me dying. Truly an inscrutable, proprietary technology the players couldn’t figure out on their own Image
To be clear the only plausible thing “owners” can do players can’t do is have lots of initial capital to buy the team in the first place but this isn’t a skill this is known as Just Being Rich. And also to be clear, industries exempt from anti-trust and labor laws are not “risky”
The absolute least risky investment on earth is owner of major sports franchise. It’s a closed market w/ antitrust exemptions sanctions by congress and the Supreme Court, free training (college athletics which also has legal exemptions), underpaid, highly liquid scab leagues etc
Every single team owner could easily be replaced by three McKinsey consultants in a trench coat appointed by the players and it wouldn’t make an ounce of difference to the end product except maybe tickets and concessions would be a bit cheaper

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Jan 20
I wrote about US media parroting trucking trade group talking points about "labor shortages" while celebrating a new "pilot" program letting teenagers drive semi-trucks

Left unmentioned: a reduction in unionization, safety standards & 30-50% cut in wages thecolumn.substack.com/p/us-media-cel…
Trucking industry trade groups have been lobbying Congress for yrs to lower the age to 18 to increase its poll of cheap, precarious labor. Another key piece of context omitted from these stories––which imply the change was brought about due solely to "COVID-related supply crises" Image
if you see any "labor shortage" story that doesn't, at all, mention a loss of morale, safety standards, pay, and an increase in workload in the relevant industry being discussed you're not reading a serious piece of journalism but a trade group press release reprint.
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Jan 19
These aren’t “programs” to “help” “the supply chain crisis” they’re safety deregulation campaigns industry lobbyists have been pushing for years to increase the labor pool, undermine unionization and suppress wages
WHY IS THERE A TRUCKER SHORTAGE??? businessinsider.com/truck-driver-s… Image
Australia, not to be outdone, is aiming for child forklift drivers
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Jan 13
56% of parents support remote learning if conditions warrant, those opposed tend to be whiter and wealthier. “Parents” vs teachers union is a bogus political narrative not backed by polling but rather a vague impression brought on by professional media groupthink
This isn’t to say of course there isn’t a meaningful bloc of parents angered by teachers unions, but note how the 56% sympathetic to their position are not given first person essays in major media outlets. Ask yourself why. Why did “parents” morph into “parents upset w/ unions”?
The constant refrain that temporary school closures will harm dems in the midterms is to be read less as a prediction and more as an extortion demand. The narrative will cement itself largely because it’s repeated nonstop and health measures are being demagogued by both parties
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Jan 13
here's my bottom line with the "school debate" and grocery, nurse walkouts and all the other workers we used to call "essential" we now just complain about, if we accept we have NoChoice But To Go Back To Normal fine ok, lockdowns have their own social and health costs 1/5
Let's concede we have no choice, let's grant that. We're asking already abused, underpaid, and overworked labor to take on a fairly sudden health burden with a lot of unknowns, the least we could, the VERY LEAST we could do is compensate them for this added risk/burden. 2/5
$5K checks? $20K? Anything at all for taking on the least forgiving workplaces in the country. People are leaving in droves for a reason, it's hard, shitty work with a lot of risks. What can the Back to Normal lobby for to help offset this? If it's so important, why not? 3/5
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Jan 12
Feel like Im losing it over the constant normative/descriptive conflation in this debate. Obviously kids SHOULD be in school, basically no one disputes this. The issue is (1) is it safe for workers who educate them? (2) are there physically enough healthy workers to educate them?
We can debate trade offs but before we can do that honestly we have to shed this idea that anyone of consequence disputes the goal of in person schooling, people keep repeating the mantra “kids need to be school” like NO SHIT. Teachers aren’t quitting and striking for the lolz
Teachers aren’t robots!
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Jan 12
These guys say it’s “not about right or left” but “power” every few months like it’s a meaningful statement but this is broadly what right-left means. Williamson says this, then (correctly!) lists off corp & military power as the problem which are core elements of…the US right
I think people kind of mean it’s not about “Republican vs Democrat” which is more accurate since the Democratic Party in the US is often very right wing. it’s obviously an imperfect two pole gradient but certainly we can acknowledge that there is a rightwing in the US & it’s bad
Genuinely curious which centers of leftwing “power” are harming the powerless in this country? Academics? Postal service unions? Podcasters?
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