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“The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages. On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a…
Just a short post tonight but I saw an interesting statistic about how many people are for or against masks. It looks like those against the mask mandates are a minority (31% against and 69% for, from an NPR article “The Topic Of Masks In Schools Is Polarizing Some Parents To The Point Of Violence”)….
I know Milton Friedman mainly for his idea that the purpose of business is to maximize profits over anything else and ignore the “good for the community” stuff. Companies should stay away from considering the welfare of all stakeholders other than the shareholder. Profit maximization at all costs – rah rah rah. I’ve yet to…
Ahh, it’s that time of the year again where I worry about the hurricanes spinning in the Atlantic. I hate it. I wonder if constantly worrying about the climate change and the pandemic is why we have increasing tension and increasing violence? Obviously, a lot of us are not handling these stresses very well. So,…
This video surprised me: I had no idea that financial types had progressed further than just using VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables. I thought Pivot Tables would be part of the landscape for those in finance but Power Query, Power BI, simple and advanced VBA? Match and Index? Wow. There is also “removing duplicates” which I…
This article on job searches failing to increase in states where unemployment benefits were cut popped up in my feed. I was surprised to see this kind of article this late in the game – I saw a similar article but about a month ago. Didn’t some states already cut the benefits? If so, by…