In my prior post, I remarked about the amusing case of tech libertarians who fashion themselves self-made geniuses despite the fact that they rely heavily upon the communistically developed free open source software (Linux, GNU, PHP, MySQL, HTTP servers, etc.) that form the foundation of the entire modern web and app economy. I want to… Continue reading Copyleft communism and the innovation it facilitates
Author: Matt Bruenig
The amusing case of tech libertarians
One of the remarkable things about tech libertarians and the culture that surrounds them is that the modern tech economy is only possible because of more socialistic endeavors. By this I don’t mean the by now hackneyed point that the internet was the fruit of public research while the world wide web was gifted to… Continue reading The amusing case of tech libertarians
Cultural Capital and meritocratic circularity
Lauren A. Rivera has a new book out titled “Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs.” Coverage of the book (The Atlantic, New York Times) indicates that the author interviewed hiring managers at elite firms to understand how they made their hiring decisions. Of interest to me in this post is Rivera’s writing about “cultural… Continue reading Cultural Capital and meritocratic circularity
Wages and Child Poverty
EPI folks wrote a paper titled “Broad-Based Wage Growth Is a Key Tool in the Fight Against Poverty.” I wrote a response titled “If You Want Really Low Poverty, Market Income Is Not Going To Get You There.” In my piece, I point out that 2 in 3 poor people are either children, elderly, disabled,… Continue reading Wages and Child Poverty
Does brand differentiation lower prices?
Over at the Demos dot org slash blog, I discussed this Bernie Sanders quote: If 99 percent of all the new income goes to the top 1 percent, you could triple it, it wouldn’t matter much to the average middle class person. The whole size of the economy and the GDP doesn’t matter if people… Continue reading Does brand differentiation lower prices?