You are overplaying it though. I am active in my union and in the organized labor movement more broadly here in the PNW. The railway strike left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths, but there’s also a recognition among leadership that the administration didn’t have any great options if they didn’t want to further tank the economy and cause even more inflation with potentially worse long-term results for everyone.
On the flipside he has appointed by far the most pro union NLRB in history, so this is kind of a case of letting the good be the enemy of the perfect.
If the choice is between a precariously old octogenarian and a completely unhinged authoritarian octogenarian who doesn’t believe in democracy, I guess I know which way I’ll vote every time.
Most of what society tells us will make us feel happy and fulfilled in life is bullshit. Living a good life is primarily about your personal relationships. Things like social status and personal wealth are far less important.
Right, but as all similar such committees eventually learn, there’s a pretty strict limit to what they can actually control or regulate. Mostly it’s just formal written usage that can be regulated. Spoken language doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s notions of what’s considered correct or incorrect. This is one of the foundational principles of linguistics.
Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off....
On its own it’s not, but it definitely is in the current political and cultural context. There’s no getting away from that. It’s going to provoke a political reaction in any conservative and there’s no point in pretending otherwise.
Ha! Just wait until you turn 50! That’s when the real fun starts. Ask me how I know.
On the flipside, while it’s true that I fucked myself up trying (and failing) to be a pro snowboarder in my 20s, it really is possibly to bounce back from injuries --so long as they aren’t too bad-- and have a good and active life in spite of them.
Sure, I’ll never be the same person I was before I trashed my body doing stupid shit when I was young reckless and stupid, but I’ve made a pretty good comeback over the years just by eating right, always exercising and staying physically fit by keeping myself in the game.
Now I’m old, in my 50s, but I’m still physically fit and in general my teenage daughter and 20-something-year-old nephews struggle to keep up with me on our hikes and backpacking and/or climbing trips.
Granted, some of it’s purely psychological, but there’s no question in my mind that some of it is also simply about having spent years as a very physically active and physically fit person.
And your point is? Obviously Reich knows this. He’s talking about the way these companies are set up to funnel ridiculously disproportionate salaries to those at the top, he’s not literally arguing that redistributing CEO pay will somehow magically solve the problem.
Your point is accurate, it’s just irrelevant nitpicking at the cost of grasping what’s really being said.
Do you know who Robert Reich is? I don’t know where he got these numbers either, but there’s pretty much zero chance that a former US secretary of labor and current Berkeley professor just pulled them out of his ass. Like his politics or not, the guy does know what he’s talking about.
It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s meant to show how ridiculously inverted the current distribution of wealth and resources is in virtually all major US industries. The point is that the money is there. It’s just getting sucked up to the top.
I personally know two former board members at Nike --because my company did a few million dollars worth of work on their mansion, not because I’m anyone important-- and from what I can tell, their jobs and lives were/are pretty fucking awesome. Just imagine the most glamorous and luxurious lifestyle you can think of, but without the drawback of being publicly recognizable, and that’s pretty much it.
Yeah, the “ease of use” one is complete bullshit. It’s “easy to use” if you’re accustomed to their “walled garden” model and don’t mind everything being automated so as to deepen your dependency on their larger ecosystem.
At this point they’ve basically turned themselves into a public nuisance. It’s the same bullshit every time; all noise and no signal which in turn means that they are very boring and predictable.
That sounds about right. I also think that at some point around that time the big Nashville labels decided that it made more financial sense to get behind a specific type of cultural and political messaging than it did to simply let the music be whatever it wanted to be.
Long gone were the days of Loretta “The Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and Johnny Paycheck “I Owe my Soul to the Company Store,” and while we still had Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt and their protogé young Steve Earle, for the most part mainstream country and western was turning into formulaic corporate crap.
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