All the points that you made are excellent, up until you went full “Breitbart” pitchfork the inconvenient truth teller.

How about we add this question to the 2020 Census:

As a general rule, the big “job poaching” plays don’t tend to happen between neighboring states anyways, even in the GOP controlled South.

Foolishly telling every child for five decades they need to go to a 4-year college after high school has created a higher-education bubble. Teachers, students, and schools everywhere are going to be in serious trouble when it pops.

Some studies might have suggested rich people have less empathy but I guarantee you no science proves “most rich people are sociopaths or pscyhopaths.”

You had me right up to “Edwards-Luckett achieved her degrees at the price of six figures of student debt. Her work at church was not especially lucrative, and she loved to teach, so she got an adjunct job at St. Petersburg College in 2015.”

I work in administration, and I agree with this. Universities & Colleges have a lot of fat that should be trimmed.

I don’t think that based on how much this country spends on education, that this country doesn’t value it. The United States like on healthcare, spends more than any other country in the world. We spend 30% more than OECD countries on K-12 and 75% more on university education.

Agreed. I touched on this in another thread, i’ve been a hiring manager/director for most of the last 20 years. There’s been an observable and disturbing downward trend in the quality of college graduates, especially in terms of reading comprehension and ability to write clearly, or for that matter, in complete…

This was a great article. I taught a night class at my alma mater in my field a couple years ago because I thought it would be fun, and hoo boy, for someone who values their time, it was glorified volunteering. After two semesters I just couldn’t justify it.

“Wellness” is also a new administrative cash cow on campus. Universities keep cramming more and more bureaucracy onto campus (and they also keep adding more and more requirements to undergrad degrees....students pretty much have to take summer classes if they want to graduate in 4 years....more $$$ for the university).

I think you’re on to something.

I left academia because of the shitty pay.  This is mostly spot on.  One thing I observed directly (and this was 20 years ago, but i think if anything the trend has accelerated) was that while actual teaching faculty were getting squeezed on money, they were building massive empires of Diversity Coordination.  Gold…

I think it’s important to point out that by law independent contractors also have a lot more freedom than W2 employees do— setting their own hours and shifts, break periods and time off, their own working conditions, dress code, etc. It’s not an inherently abusive relationship, in exchange for giving up some statutory…

You might want to read beyond the first three words of my reply if you are going to try to refute my point. Also, I don’t work as a receptionist or under the terms you describe in the receptionist scenario. And it seems you are unaware of the existence of temp agencies; contracting temps for receptionist work is…

“forcing minimum hours/shifts like Amazon delivery services is bullshit and totally makes you an employee.”

I drive for Uber. No one puts a gun to my head to drive for them. If it doesn’t meet my personal needs, I am free to quit or go elsewhere.

“They are also not fully independent contractors because independent contractors, by their status, can determine their own price for their labor.”

This is not serfdom.  They are not beholden to any master.  They chose to be freelance drivers.  They chose to use their own cars.  They didn't sign any contracts requiring 9-5 service. 

I still fail to see how these drivers are employees.  Their main job function is to act as a driver.  The drivers own their own cars. They have to pay for their own insurance.  They have independence to work as much or as little as they want.  This is not an employment relationship. If they are unhappy with lack of…