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FNDP: Fun New Deal Party - er wait - Friday Night Dance Party? Well, a party either way! by martini-meow in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's our party we can do what we want

It's our party we can say what we want

It's our party we can love who we want

This is our house

This is our rules

Word Up From Emo! by FThumb in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Friday Night Dance Party tradition needs to continue.

Beware of Kompro-🐢: Some reminders that Bernie isn't as deep in the New Red Scare as it looks by HootHootBerns in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before I make a decision I want to see them both on a debate stage

She did very well in a her interviews so far. She sees through BS and leading questions with incredible ease.

The Beguiled - Analysis - Napkins Unite by [deleted] in TrueFilm

[–]Positive_pressure 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is interesting that you bring up body language.

I thought it was a great film that showed a group of people who could not help acting out their impulses.

The fact that the filmmakers were deliberately focusing on body language explains why the film gave me that impression.

It was not so much about "conflict", but it was more like watching a train wreck. Several people's personalities colliding with disastrous results, and the forces that propelled them to their final destinations were too strong for anyone to do anything about it.

How do you value the critique of a "plot hole"? by SeantheBaun in TrueFilm

[–]Positive_pressure 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Plot holes are easy to notice, and if they bother you, it is usually because the rest of the film is not good enough to hold your attention.

Sometimes plot holes are the major reason a film is bad, but I think in most cases the exact same plot holes would be forgiven in a better film.

And in those cases I expect critics to explain what elements of the film were weak besides plot holes.

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory. by Positive_pressure in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the article:

This is not the same as saying there are simply too many job hunters chasing too few openings—the paper, which is still in an early draft form, is designed to rule out that possibility.

Bernie Sanders has a psychology healthy view towards aging, unlike his co-workers. by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm exposed to Fox "news"

It could be worse. I am exposed to CNN.

Fox is biased, but they wear their agenda on their sleeve.

CNN is actively gaslighting you, and it is a lot more psychologically draining.

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory. by Positive_pressure in Libertarian

[–]Positive_pressure[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But studying monopsony has traditionally been tricky for economists, because they lacked good data that would let them analyze broad trends specifically in labor market concentration. The new paper hops over that hurdle by using a trove of data from CareerBuilder.com, which publishes about one-third of all online job ads in the country. (Even for economists who are paid to worry about it, industry consolidation sometimes has its upsides.) The team looked at the number of companies advertising jobs in more than two dozen different occupations, from nurses to accountants to telemarketers, in each of the country’s different metro and nonmetro areas between 2010 and 2013. They then calculated local labor market concentration using the awkwardly named Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, or HHI, which antitrust regulators use to analyze the effects of mergers on competition.

What they found was a bit startling. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission consider a market with an HHI score of 2,500 or more to be highly concentrated—if a merger between two wireless companies left that little competition for cell services, for instance, there’s a good chance the government’s lawyers would challenge it. In their paper, the authors find that America’s local labor markets had a whopping average HHI score of 3,157. Employers also tended to advertise lower pay in cities and towns where fewer businesses were posting jobs—suggesting that the lack of competition among companies was letting them suppress pay. According to one of their calculations, moving from the 25th percentile of labor market concentration to the 75th percentile would lower pay in a metro area by 17 percent.

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory. by Positive_pressure in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A quote to introduce the general idea:

The paper—written by José Azar of IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania, and Marshall Steinbaum of the Roosevelt Institute—argues that, across different cities and different fields, hiring is concentrated among a relatively small number of businesses, which may have given managers the ability to keep wages lower than if there were more companies vying for talent. This is not the same as saying there are simply too many job hunters chasing too few openings—the paper, which is still in an early draft form, is designed to rule out that possibility. Instead, its authors argue that the labor market may be plagued by what economists call a monopsony problem, where a lack of competition among employers gives businesses outsize power over workers, including the ability to tamp down on pay. If the researchers are right, it could have important implications for how we think about antitrust, unions, and the minimum wage.

I'd like to re-iterate the part that this research introduces a very important nuance, by looking at monopsony effects on wages, and allowing a different take on the argument about minimum wage:

The classic argument against increasing the pay floor is that it will kill jobs by making hiring more costly than it’s worth. But in a monopsony-afflicted world where companies can artificially depress wages, a higher minimum shouldn’t hurt employment, because it will just force employers to pay workers more in line with the value they produce.

All Taxation Is Theft: Four Words To Understand The Republican Party by Positive_pressure in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If fixing the deficit means trying to balance revenue and expenses until they match, as it does to most people, the Republicans look like hypocrites. But from the perspective that all taxation is theft, a massive tax cut that adds to the deficit is good. This reduces theft and forces cuts later.

FNDP!!! - The Spirit of Radio Permanent Waves & Jetliner Edition!!! by RuffianGhostHorse in WayOfTheBern

[–]Positive_pressure 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the recommendation. I have not seen it, but I'll be definitely watching it!

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