This idea is great. Looking forward to the Trump proposal to collect $150/week from rich white dudes in order to transfer that money to those with lower labor market income. If only someone had thought of such a generous and kind program that everyone in America could participate in.

No, we’ll be taking the money that should have gone to the less well off in the first place that the rich people stole from them through clever upwardly redistributionist policies.

(minus Cornell, for some reason)

Good thing they didn’t send any emails instead, they’d have gotten the whole team suspended.

This is CW that doesn’t capture the whole picture and is based on BLS data that only looks at people making EXACTLY min wage or less. The population helped by min wage increase to $15 is much larger and trends older. Lots of working moms would be helped by the bump in wage. The change for them would not be from 7.25…

My parents live outside city limits. Growing up, we’d get people moving in and out of surrounding lots. People take moving to the country as a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want, as you seem to think should be allowed on private property. The problem comes when, say, your next door neighbors decide to set up…

Go fuck yourselves.

Why would this be interesting?

The authors of the study used a long list of names that they had a set of random subjects guess race and rank their confidence, I believe. Or similar. They did this for both white and black sounding names, and using statistical methods they singled out the names that respondents PERCEIVED to be most white, or most…

It’s not obvious that people should not loot. The question is how much looting is optimal. Said better here: http://gawker.com/actually-riots…

I think that we do protest terrorist attacks. We (the US) started two wars as a direct consequence of being attacked. My opinion was and is that those wars were mostly unjustified, while these riots are completely justified. And the wars killed LOADS of innocent people while the protests only harm property, but both…

Actually, riots are good and very rational: http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918

Which conveniently won’t be possible to determine since the child is dead. And they would lie about it if the child had lived.

The only reason to use points to buy things with your Chase card, from what I can tell as a Chase Rewards cardholder, is if you also have a Chase Venture card and book travel through their site for a 25% bonus on points. If you have both Chase Rewards and Chase Venture, you can transfer points earned with the Rewards…

Yep, those Miami seasons sure were boring.

Nah, I get the point. And I am injecting something very related to the conversation. I am pushing back against the assumption that allowing people not to simply be at work/to chain themselves to their respective job sites will result in economic shut downs. Will places be closed? Sure. Happens during the ACC…

Do you think it’s more likely that 10-15% of a country could go support their national team in: Country A) all working citizens guaranteed 2 days off per month worked last year; Country B) No guaranteed leave, workers average 10 days of leave per year at discretion of their employer?

Good point. It’s rare for large swaths of the US to simply stop doing things during sporting events. It’s why March Madness and the Super Bowl have struggled. Too many people worried about making sure they’re productive either during those or on the day following for anyone to get too into it.

Right? Meanwhile, in the US, everyone knows that, for instance, no one works during March madness or the day after the Super Bowl. But there we all are with our shitty leave policies, dressed up and pretending.

Yah, some people invariably do better in US than the min guarantee in Iceland. Stats I saw said average US worker gets 10 paid days off. And the Iceland number is based on months of work int he previous fiscal year...so like, you get 2 days per month worked. Also not including Iceland’s 11 paid annual holidays...