Tag: economics
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No, people aren’t returning to work because those meager checks are so awesome. Look closer.
“People aren’t returning to work because they like being on welfare!” I can’t help but overhear it, but I can walk away from it. The toothless turd who just let that one fly out of his head probably doesn’t know how to spell “economics” let alone wrap his mind around its central concepts (e.g. the…
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Why did Trump lose?
Trump made gains among all demographics except one this time around. Who were the people who rejected Trump’s message and saved Biden’s bid for POTUS? White men. Blue-collar white men do not vote based on ideology alone. To this economically disadvantaged group, one thing matters most of all: jobs. Working class Americans define themselves largely…
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Know Your Place
Once, when I was standing on the platform of the AmTrak station in Tupelo, I saw a starving family. A few years later, when I was at the Varsity in Atlanta, I saw a woman take a bite from a chili slaw cheese dog, frown, and pitch the bulk of it into the trash. It…
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The Problematic Nature of Amazon’s Hellier
Amazon’s docuseries, Hellier, details an investigation by three apparently terribly ignorant “paranormal researchers” into the presence of small “goblins” living in a mineshaft near the moribund mining town of Hellier, Kentucky. Despite being rife with pseudoscience and obvious bad actors (as in agents, not hired thespians), the show emphasizes the growing and alarming disparity between…