... what do you think “asylum” is?

Leaving the part where you suggest that a 19th Century economist is somehow in the same generation as me, and how dumb “I don’t read things that I don’t already know I’ll agree with is,” the idea is just to read whatever’s fashionable with people who are more successful than you if you want to become one of them.…

A graph that stops at 2000, before insane jumps in minimum wage appeasements over the last few years, isn’t showing a damned thing worth seeing. Even taking into account the fallacy of the graph you showed with no linking information or research and it not even being close to up to date....

“If you forget you are a Jew, eventually, someone will remind you”

Yes, but it hasn’t always been. The North was doing a lot better and the South a lot worse during the Cold War.

Sick burn, bro

They didn’t do that until we refused to allow democratic elections in the South. Potato Potahto.

Is it? If you already have skills that don’t require the ability to practice law, an LLM would have much better ROI than a JD. But hey, this way, some relative who left the work force decades ago will think you’re a real big shot! If that’s what it’s about for you, go nuts, but I’d settle for the money and just get…

Yes, management famously has nothing to do with how groups of people act.

“time and time again” oh, do tell

So you waited until there was a surplus of lawyers to become one because... ?

1. Ours. The United States’.

Today on Kinja: this stable genius thinks Mark Twain can suck his ass

Aside: MBAs, if anything, show a lack of skill. Business is economics and social psychology, as dumbed down for people who will never be able to solve a problem harder than “what color tie should I wear today?”

Yes, so you’ve said. This still requires wages to behave very differently than other prices. What is the non-coercive mechanism by which you believe this happens?

Well no, obviously, nobody believes that, not since the Enlightenment at least. The virtue of evidence (e.g. this handy graph which shows that our national experiment with a low minimum wage has done nothing to contain the cost of living) is that it helps you avoid mistaking a single data point (e.g. last year in…

If you think a legitimate criticism of someone is that they live in the wrong place for their job, and are aware that he in the United States residential neighborhoods do not generally overlap with commercial areas, you aren’t saying, as as you seem to think, that they should have a different job. You’re saying they…

Excuses for what, exactly? I had a much easier time than that in college and almost certainly make more than you now. Neither of us is more virtuous for any of it, and pretending markets are meritocracies is just mindless, anti-empirical ideology.

You did, in the first sentence of your post.

Well, anybody whose most can afford to put them up and feed them for free and whose mother lives near a university can do that, at best. The rest of us will still need to pay for food and rent.