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Excellent new piece on inequality from @kaliholloway.bsky.social in @thenation.com. (You’ll find me cited a few times.)
"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
Capitalism for his good friends, but not such much for these folks. (Also, can we impose an income cap on U.S. presidents?)
What's so interesting to me in recent trips abroad is how young Europeans still gather in cafés to socialize without any obvious presence of phones or related technologies. Agreed that Americans appear especially vulnerable to tech in a way that infects others less so.
New (and thoughtful!) review of The Greatest of All Plagues by James Harris (St. Andrews) in the Journal of Modern History.
When I published my book less than two years ago, naturally, I cited Musk's wealth -- then at $200 billion -- as an astonishing fact. Today it has exceeded $1 trillion. Two years.
Just for the record, Plato thought wise lawgivers would prohibit the richest citizens from acquiring more than four times the amount of property held by the poorest ones.
It was a great honor to do this interview with @guidoalfani.bsky.social, one of the great humanist scholars of inequality, while in Milan this spring. Guido has done terrific interviews with other inequality scholars, including @ebharrington.bsky.social and @brankomilan.bsky.social.
If SBF's petition for a presidential pardon is granted, this would really neatly wrap up a saga about how deeply corrupting inequality is. Mike McLendon and I wrote about this a while back. We may be compelled to write more soon.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
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so an interesting thing here is that the *very sharp* decline in recent years - which virtually every educator I know has remarked upon - seems to be *largely* a U.S. pattern rather than a European one. That to me suggests that we can't just blame the phones.
🎙️ New episode of Dondena Decode!
How are economic inequality and political instability connected?
In this episode @guidoalfani.bsky.social (Bocconi University) interviews @laywilliams.bsky.social (DePaul University)!
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Breaking News: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soared above $150 on its first day of trading.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto billionaire who orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, officially asked President Donald Trump for a pardon, according to the Justice Department’s website. https://cnn.it/4xlBMnS
When I published my book less than two years ago, naturally, I cited Musk's wealth -- then at $200 billion -- as an astonishing fact. Today it has exceeded $1 trillion. Two years.
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Breaking News: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soared above $150 on its first day of trading.
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
