Morning Ed: World {2016.08.01.M}
The restoration of Gladiator school!
Peter Tuchin weighs in on the question of what the Mariel boatlift says and doesn’t say about immigration and wages. (For those unfamiliar, the Mariel boatlift is often cited as proof that immigration doesn’t hurt wages, but it has recently been called in to question.)
Could you solution to the refugee problem be investment in Jordan?
Nothing but slavery is slavery, but…
So maybe the breakup of the UK isn’t so imminent.
Daniel Hannan points to the unfallen sky.
Marian Tupy looks at post-communism in Europe and the subsequent advance in economy and freedom.
The Juggalos are marching on Washington, DC.
Gladiators: Cool. Do they even have “demonstrations” of gladiatorial fights in the Colosseum? That’d be cool to see.
IMF: “mistakes were made”. Many suffered, few benefited. No one responsible will loose anything-like their job.
Forced work: “Either a person rules himself exclusively, or someone else rules him completely or in part, and the latter is called ‘slavery'”.Report
IMF:
“The report said the whole approach to the eurozone was characterised by “groupthink” and intellectual capture. They had no fall-back plans on how to tackle a systemic crisis in the eurozone – or how to deal with the politics of a multinational currency union – because they had ruled out any possibility that it could happen.”
Ha.Report
If anything bad happens because of this in the next three months (August, September, October), is it the type of bad thing that results in interesting pictures/headlines?Report
Even if someone did lose their job, that class of person is so rarified that they’d have a new job capable of maintaining the expected lifestyle within a few weeks.
It’s hard to punish an individual elite when the rest are so willing to pick them up once the dust settles.Report
Exactly.Report
Kind of.
Research seems to indicate that ancient gladiatorial fights had an element of fiction to them.
Kayfabe goes back a long, long, long way.Report
Still, it would be interesting to see “historical reenactments” of games in the place they took place, whether or not it was fake then or not.Report
I agree. Until that day arrives, though, we have Summerslam.
Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton.
August 21st, baby.Report
I wonder how Mimi Soltysik & Angela Nicole Walker would explain this slavery? I guess it’s necessary for the revolution?Report
I’m sure some of the sponsors have also been in a Turkish prison.Report
I think there’s something missing from this analysis of Venezuela sending people out into the fields to work.
How is this materially different from any other employer assigning any other employee to a new position temporarily to meet shifting demands?
I’ve been thinking more and more that AI is full of sh!t.Report
You can quit your job more easily than they can quit their country.
The more apt comparison is The Draft.Report
“I like a system which lets a man quit when he wants to, and wish it might prevail everywhere.” (A. Lincoln, 1860)Report
I think it’s more like calling the people from the press room in to pitch in on the end-of-year inventory.Report