Yesterday, I argued that poor kids do not get traditional media jobs because growing up poor puts them so far behind their non-poor peers that they get out-competed for the scarce media jobs. I think the following graph, which tracks likelihood of college attendance at age 19 by parental income, is very telling on this… Continue reading Social and cultural capital probably keep poor kids out of media jobs too
Author: Matt Bruenig
Why poor kids do not get media jobs
Jennifer Pan has a piece Jacobin about the labor of social media. I enjoyed the bits about the extent to which social media jobs are essentially gendered emotional labor jobs in which predominately women interface with the public for a given company while the power structure that runs the company remains male-dominated. I take exception… Continue reading Why poor kids do not get media jobs
Initial Appropriation: A Dialogue
Jason Kuznicki has a way-too-long fictional dialogue where he tries to show you that, if you operate under historically-bound ideological assumptions, things that deviate from the historically-bound ideological assumptions seem weird. He did a great job. I have been wanting to do initial appropriation in dialogue for a long time now, and so I am… Continue reading Initial Appropriation: A Dialogue
Libertarian Julian Sanchez Agrees Non-Aggression Is Circular
Shortly after I first learned of the non-aggression principle (NAP) and how it was supposed to justify libertarian property rights, it occurred to me that it was hopelessly circular. This was around 6-7 years ago. It baffled me why so many libertarians I knew used this principle in argument and why they could not understand,… Continue reading Libertarian Julian Sanchez Agrees Non-Aggression Is Circular
How a reductio ad absurdum works
I wrote about the non-aggression principle at Demos today. I explained that the principle that you should not initiate force against other people generates the conclusion that we must create the grab-what-you-can world. In this world, people are free to do whatever they want so long as they do not literally bring force against another… Continue reading How a reductio ad absurdum works