Glassnoser
6mo ago
Pregnancy only needs to take you out of the economy for a few weeks. I really don't understand why its effect on women's careers is exaggerated so much.
Glassnoser
3mo ago
the administration that flew in a million illegal immigrants under temporary exemptions while only requiring them to put a name and email in a fucking phone app.
Do you have a source for this claim?
Everyone involved in the CBP One program needs to be in prison or deported to a prison.
For having broken what laws?
This is an argument for children being expensive, not for children being a big drag on women's careers.
Glassnoser
10mo ago
The UK and Canada actually do have freedom of speech. It's just not interpreted as liberally as it has been by American judges in the latter half of the 20th century.
Glassnoser
3mo ago
Why has the rule enforcement been so lax ever since we moved from /r/themotte? Or is that a false impression?
Glassnoser
8mo ago
Is it normal to have dangerous levels of lead in natural water supplies?
Glassnoser
6mo ago
No, one side is saying some Indians are better workers than some Americans. That's not saying Indians are better as a whole.
Glassnoser
2mo ago
This isn't human trafficking.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
Some people do want to live with them though.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
Maybe I'm biased by the possibly unusual experiences of my close family members, but my mother for example had four children and that didn't stop her from being highly successful. From what I've heard it, she didn't find pregnancy difficult and couldn't wait to go back to work. But who said it had to be two weeks? You can take more than that off, but it doesn't need to be the whole year that some people take.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
Traffic congestion is caused by a lack of congestion pricing. It's a choice, not a necessary feature of any particular urban layout.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
I don't know anything about that or what point you're making.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
The original point was never to compare American workers to those across the rest of the world.
My point was that if the rest of the world gets by on much less, then they clearly get paid enough to keep up with basic necessities.
Wages are up, but the price of goods in the United States is outpacing that growth to the point that lower- and middle-class people making decent wages still can barely afford the necessities, e.g., rent, groceries, gas, childcare.
The word "real" means the numbers are adjusted for inflation, so if real wages are going up, that means that nominal wages are increasing faster than the price of goods. This is especially true for lower and middle class people. Their earnings have risen more than those of upper class people. The wages of the poorest have risen the most.
Swing state voters said this was their biggest concern and hope (and believe) Trump and the Republicans will come to the rescue.
If you look at polls that have been done over the last few years, most Americans say they're doing fine but believe most other people are not. These economic problems are completely imaginary. This has been the best period for the increase in the standard of living of the American poor in a very long time,
Glassnoser
8mo ago
Very few people actually live paycheque to paycheque though. The US economy has done really well and real wages, especially for the poor are up.
Glassnoser
2mo ago
Are you calling Scott Sumner a random partisan hack?
It's been three years. The emergency for which their rights were suspended is long over. Why can't they start giving these people trials to determine if they belong in prison? Why don't they have habeas corpus? Why do they need to experience such high levels of abuse while in prison?
the very few (ie probably less than 0.1%) innocently caught in the net via the policies are worth more than having a functioning society.
How could you possibly know what that number is?
Now Bukele over time may turn into a negative authoritarian and at that time if criticize him.
That time is now.
https://apnews.com/article/bukele-salvador-crackdown-price-gouging-7e99374c444a81a4009ec09d94857d25
Glassnoser
2mo ago
Yes
Glassnoser
2mo ago
He was not even afforded this small amount of due process required to establish citizenship. He was not deported as the result of any hearing. The result of the hearings was that he won the right not to be deported. They deported him anyway, accidentally and illegally. If they accidentally deported a citizen, at what point would that citizen be able to prove his citizenship before leaving the country? The current system would not put that person in front of a judge before getting deported.
Glassnoser
3mo ago
The lockdowns caused a massive plunge in the stock market. There was a recovery, but I don't see how that could have been caused by money printing. Printing money doesn't affect the real prices of assets.
Glassnoser
3mo ago
What makes this classified information? The actual targets were not specified.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
How do you know you didn't just get lucky with a coin flip?
Glassnoser
9mo ago
That's just a way of saying you'd rather have savings than not. It doesn't tell you anything about the merits of owning versus renting a car.
Glassnoser
10mo ago
The UK has an unwritten constitution. But that's irrelevant. I didn't say it had a constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. It has freedom of speech. They could repeal that law, but they haven't. They've simply interpreted it to not be as restrictive as the first amendment. The US Supreme Court has done the same in the past.
Glassnoser
10mo ago
You're missing the point. The difference in freedom of speech between the US and Canada and the UK is not because of the first amendment. Canada and the UK also have laws protecting freedom of speech in basically the same language, but they've been interpreted differently. The first amendment also used to be interpreted very loosely, resulting in the US having many laws restricting speech in the past that would not be allowed today.
There is pretty good evidence that immigration has next to no effect on wages. It may even be slightly positive. Everyone who complains about immigrants suppressing wages seems to think that labour demand is fixed. Growing the population increases the supply and demand for labour about equally.
The idea that immigrants take up too much physical space also seems absurd given that Americans congregate in places with higher density. Being around people is a net benefit. There is lots of empty space for those who disagree.
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