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Tired: it's not possible to "earn" a billion dollars through accumulated capital.
Wired: it's not possible for a product manager at Apple to "earn" thirty times the pay of someone mining lithium for batteries in Zimbabwe.
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution.
What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive…
"international lawyers, who tend to focus on formal, legalised processes and institutions, will often fail to perceive the evolution of the global capitalist system and its legal order."
The week in review: @richardjoyce.bsky.social assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot.
Plus, some hot new LPE pieces from around the web 🧵👇
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"No lithium means no batteries, and so no electronic devices, and so no value to the labor of Apple product managers. But lithium miners are not paid in a way that reflects this necessity, because what is necessary is their collective labor, and they are paid one by one."
“One person willing to keep acting as if there is no alternative is Carney himself. Indeed, Carney treats the policy tenets of neoliberalism as a truth that we can simply live.” @richardjoyce.bsky.social on the limits of Carney’s call to live ‘in truth’.
We are having our first LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour on Wednesday before the Knicks game at DSK in Brooklyn, 5-8pm!
You don't need to have been to an LPE event before or have a background in law, just an interest in talking about ideas & fighting for a better future for our city!
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution.
What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
"The anti-tenancy doctrine is so pervasive in part because it reflects a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American housing policy: we expect housing to function simultaneously as an investment asset and also to fulfill a basic human need for shelter."
"US AI policy today is both blunt in its aspirations and self-contradictory in its methods."
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When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive…
Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney's speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda's anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in…
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution.
What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
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At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order.
Yet as @richardjoyce.bsky.social argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The real question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
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Today, @wanshucong.bsky.social explains how significant parts of the global economy have long been governed through informal, political arrangements.
When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive…
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
The marginalization of international law under the second Trump administration has been a shock to the post-Cold War world order. Yet the impact of this development on the global economy has been far…
Today, @frankpasquale.bsky.social contrasts Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
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Today, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale argue that as policymakers pursue supply-side reforms to address rising housing costs, they must also confront a legal regime that affords tenants second-class status.
Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas offers a vision of AI guided by peace, dignity, and moral renewal. It stands in stark contrast to an American administration governing by meme, chaos…
As policymakers pursue supply-side reforms to address rising housing costs, they must also confront a legal regime that affords tenants second-class status. Without confronting this anti-tenancy bias…
