Vastly easier. Plus although we think of Wyoming as remote, transportation wise it really isn't with well established rail system for transport which the bulk of coal is going to be shipped by, especially that product going to west coast ports for overseas (such as China).
The importance of covering and discussing these types of stories, while always trying to be a little sensitive to the victims and understand the accused has some rights as well, is that so often once that first person comes forward there is a flood of others. These women, at least as the story has unfolded so far, had no recourse at all until two journalist took up their cause and story. We cannot say victims should speak out if we are not going give them fair hearing when they do. I suspect the swiftness of the resignation here may well mean there is other things yet to reveal.
Right now it isn't other fuels that WV coal cant compete with, it is other coal. All the transportation issues @em-carpenter brings up as to why coal has remained a dominate force is now killing coal itself. The bituminous coal of southern WV is very high quality, (relatively) clean burning and excellent material, so the effort was worth it. But now its not, and the vast majority of the coal coming out of WV is going on boats to China, literally. But by far the biggest reason all those coal jobs are never coming back is the same reason as other industries: automation. There is no need for massive manpower and the associated cost and risk when a handful can operate machinery that once took legions of men to do. Deep mining, where it will exist at all, will soon be almost completely automated. The myth isn't just in the coal jobs coming back, but the idea of unskilled labor making those types of wages is gone as well. Most miners of the future will be as much computer and drone operators as shoveling dirt.
In Farrows case, look at all the places that turned him down or shut out his original work on the Weinstein story, so maybe not so suprising after all. To their credit certainly for going there were "traditional" news organs dared not.
I think there is a real argument to make that the NRA is making a long term mistake being so openly political on matters beyond 2A. I understand it, but I think it is a mistake. With the political heated rhetoric comes a lot of attention and money, and those funds come quicker and easier than just membership drives. But there is a price to that. It wasn't that long ago NRA was pretty bi-partisan. Their stated goal of 2A defense in not helped with some of their more over the top political stuff, especially the NRATV spots. To point, the ad where the guy smashed the TV comes out right before Parkland. They have nothing to do with each other but the optics of "crazy person smashing TV" doesn't help a week later when you are called upon to discuss serious gun issues.
Correct. And interesting symbolism; if anything cranking up the confrontational, partisan form they have been selling as public image the last few years. Almost picking a fight with the scrutiny this will bring to a mostly ceremonial position.
I grew up a Reds fan; after the Big Red Machine you have the '90 title but that was sandwiched between Pete Rose and Marge scandals and following years of futility.
I was in attendance for Buhner Buzz Night in the Kingdome circa '96, does that count for anything?
Two quibbles with the linked article, though I enjoyed reading it and it does lay out its points:
1) Subsidizing child care is not going to make it any less expensive, its just laundering the cost through the government. Paying via taxes instead of directly is mostly a shell game so the cost is hidden, but it is not going to "lower" it.
2) Much of the issue with the cost of childcare is regulation driving up that cost (see things such as degree requirements for day care workers in some places), further government interference is going to make that worse not better.
Didn't fit the narrative, as they would say today. Its a great story on its own, they could not solve the yellow fever riddle. Prevailing thought was quarantines and sanitation would cure it, but when it didn't Walter Read and Carlos Findlay figured out it was the mosquitos causing it. They did this by deliberately infecting some service men. So once they figured that out, they knew to eradicate the conditions for the mosquitos and within a year problem solved, which was used to great effect building the panama canal also.
Because it's a people business. And people are hard. But whatever your business/profession is in, to be successful at mentoring you have to be good at the people business.
It is. I think it's one of the biggest things that is done wrong in business right now, why I've written about mentoring for other sites before. It's vital, and many do it wrong.
You should write it, if not in book form at least in part. Is there even such a thing as a "balanced relationship" or is it one of those things we say that sounds good but is an impossible goal in practice?
Its not an unfair point that we use the extreme cases in these discussions because the black and white of such an example makes it easier. But still worth discussion so you have a reference point as you start working through the larger number of people who have elements of the extreme case.
The business reality of it is that (non-existent) skill set is not worth/valued at $15-an-hour, so either an employer is going to be benevolent and overpay until the skill level matches the production value, or they will not hire them at all. Mostly the later. This is where the argument of "the true minimum wage is zero" comes from. You can set whatever arbitrary standard you want, if the labor isn't valued at that wage, the employers are not going to have labor on the books at a net loss.
We’re going to need to spend some time on basic employability skills with a lot of these people (90%? We good with that?) and teach them the whole “get an alarm clock, show up on time, show up showered” thing as a pre-req to getting them to show up for the training required to make them skilled labor.
This is where all the rhetoric, and polling, and policy thinking and the good intentions met reality. If you take a person like Jaybird is describing off the street straight to employment they are set up for failure. It will never work on a replicatable scale. If they do not have a intermediate step of some job/skill training before they enter working environment, its doomed. You are not only talking about an unproductive employee, but also the disruption of having to take other labor off-line to train/mentor them. Business-wise it cost a lot of money both in time used and productivity lost to do so, and if that employee doesn't show it to be a wise investment that's going to get a return it will be cut off quickly. Its not just on the employee either; as hard as it is to get a raw employee trained up, getting experienced employees/supervisors to invest in mentoring others, especially to that level, is even harder since mentoring is 90% give-a-damn, and most don't. And all the while the business is dealing with these personnel issues, the competitive business world keeps turning, and doesn't stop, and must be kept up with.
I really appreciated this. I don't even pretend to be an art expert, especially such things as criticism and interpretation. I am perfectly content with living on the "Oh that looks interesting" level. But reading about this controversy when it immediately came out I had the same thought I have had about many such protests; that in demanding an immediate response to how they feel about a piece they miss the whole point. And art, like music and other mediums, can have layers in it, like @chip points out here, that normal dialogue misses out on.
Good questions, lets go through them...
Kayne is a perfect example of this actually. Yes he is already wealthy but look at who is promoting him-Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk. They were all three posing together at TMZ's studio among other things. For Kanye, the attention and press is more important than the money, but for Kirk and Owens organization, Turning Point USA, as a 501c3 they live and die on fundraising, and Kirk and company have made it fundraising juggernaut. Something like Kanye is a walking goldmine. Last year mandatory filings arent available yet but previous years are and they pull in millions of dollars; and all that travel by Kirk, Owens, and others is of course vouchered by the org. Every tweet, event, media, all of it will be geared towards hitting the outrage notes then sliding in the sales pitch to get involved with TPUSA, which leads eventually to costs and earning revenue.
Less well known bloggers and commenters make ad revenue on their Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages if they get enough audience going. You can google the howling that's involved when YouTube "demonetizes" someones account for the effect this stream has on some folks.
Then their are the "pro-am hybrids". Think Diamond and Silk as this category, they present naturally as if they just fell out of the sky but they are coordinated, planned, and a business model based on the persona's. Their mailing address on their official forms goes to pre-paid mailbox in a quick pack store 5 minutes from my house. It's an act for revenue, thus their outrage that Facebook was "freezing" them out, that is their business model.
There are lots of examples but you get the idea. And "mainstream press" is actually doing quite well, newspapers what you say is true but the news networks have year over year increases in revenue.
I appreciate you thoughts, and I agree with most of what you point out. It is a cultural change, such grinding of tectonic plates is going to cause ripples. You are correct it isn't ginned up, which is the analogy I was reaching for here; there was actual fighting and actual casualties then. The culture issues are very real, but I do think the ability to monetize them makes them worse, or at least appear worse, than they need be or are. Your point on the 60s/70s is well taken in that the perspective of outrage and "badness" of current issues needs context. We have, thankfully, not had a Kent state-type culture war moment but have careened close with Charlottesville, certain shootings, and others. Perhaps it a matter of time till we do (God forbid), but all the more reason to speak out for some restraint.
On “King Coal: West Virginia’s Abusive Love”
Vastly easier. Plus although we think of Wyoming as remote, transportation wise it really isn't with well established rail system for transport which the bulk of coal is going to be shipped by, especially that product going to west coast ports for overseas (such as China).
On “NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Accused of Abusing Women”
The importance of covering and discussing these types of stories, while always trying to be a little sensitive to the victims and understand the accused has some rights as well, is that so often once that first person comes forward there is a flood of others. These women, at least as the story has unfolded so far, had no recourse at all until two journalist took up their cause and story. We cannot say victims should speak out if we are not going give them fair hearing when they do. I suspect the swiftness of the resignation here may well mean there is other things yet to reveal.
On “King Coal: West Virginia’s Abusive Love”
Right now it isn't other fuels that WV coal cant compete with, it is other coal. All the transportation issues @em-carpenter brings up as to why coal has remained a dominate force is now killing coal itself. The bituminous coal of southern WV is very high quality, (relatively) clean burning and excellent material, so the effort was worth it. But now its not, and the vast majority of the coal coming out of WV is going on boats to China, literally. But by far the biggest reason all those coal jobs are never coming back is the same reason as other industries: automation. There is no need for massive manpower and the associated cost and risk when a handful can operate machinery that once took legions of men to do. Deep mining, where it will exist at all, will soon be almost completely automated. The myth isn't just in the coal jobs coming back, but the idea of unskilled labor making those types of wages is gone as well. Most miners of the future will be as much computer and drone operators as shoveling dirt.
On “NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Accused of Abusing Women”
In Farrows case, look at all the places that turned him down or shut out his original work on the Weinstein story, so maybe not so suprising after all. To their credit certainly for going there were "traditional" news organs dared not.
On “Oliver North to Become President of NRA”
well done
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They do tend to re-tread, don't they.
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I think there is a real argument to make that the NRA is making a long term mistake being so openly political on matters beyond 2A. I understand it, but I think it is a mistake. With the political heated rhetoric comes a lot of attention and money, and those funds come quicker and easier than just membership drives. But there is a price to that. It wasn't that long ago NRA was pretty bi-partisan. Their stated goal of 2A defense in not helped with some of their more over the top political stuff, especially the NRATV spots. To point, the ad where the guy smashed the TV comes out right before Parkland. They have nothing to do with each other but the optics of "crazy person smashing TV" doesn't help a week later when you are called upon to discuss serious gun issues.
On “Don Blankenship Is Not Going Quietly”
I've update the post for the felony error. The link was correct but the posting was not, my mistake.
There has been a complaint filed with his probation board in Nevada by his opponents campaign but we will leave that to our legal friends to dissect.
On “Oliver North to Become President of NRA”
If you are speculating that it will not only continue but escalate you would have validity to your argument.
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Correct, this is a promotion internal from board member to President of the Board, but LaPierre is still CEO.
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Correct. And interesting symbolism; if anything cranking up the confrontational, partisan form they have been selling as public image the last few years. Almost picking a fight with the scrutiny this will bring to a mostly ceremonial position.
On “Unrequited Love: Sports Fan Edition”
I grew up a Reds fan; after the Big Red Machine you have the '90 title but that was sandwiched between Pete Rose and Marge scandals and following years of futility.
I was in attendance for Buhner Buzz Night in the Kingdome circa '96, does that count for anything?
On “The Basic Political Bargain”
Two quibbles with the linked article, though I enjoyed reading it and it does lay out its points:
1) Subsidizing child care is not going to make it any less expensive, its just laundering the cost through the government. Paying via taxes instead of directly is mostly a shell game so the cost is hidden, but it is not going to "lower" it.
2) Much of the issue with the cost of childcare is regulation driving up that cost (see things such as degree requirements for day care workers in some places), further government interference is going to make that worse not better.
On “The Yellow Journalism of the Culture War”
Didn't fit the narrative, as they would say today. Its a great story on its own, they could not solve the yellow fever riddle. Prevailing thought was quarantines and sanitation would cure it, but when it didn't Walter Read and Carlos Findlay figured out it was the mosquitos causing it. They did this by deliberately infecting some service men. So once they figured that out, they knew to eradicate the conditions for the mosquitos and within a year problem solved, which was used to great effect building the panama canal also.
On “Morning Ed: Labor {2018.05.03.Th}”
Because it's a people business. And people are hard. But whatever your business/profession is in, to be successful at mentoring you have to be good at the people business.
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It is. I think it's one of the biggest things that is done wrong in business right now, why I've written about mentoring for other sites before. It's vital, and many do it wrong.
On “The Triple Lens of Art History”
I know what you mean.
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You should write it, if not in book form at least in part. Is there even such a thing as a "balanced relationship" or is it one of those things we say that sounds good but is an impossible goal in practice?
On “Morning Ed: Labor {2018.05.03.Th}”
Its not an unfair point that we use the extreme cases in these discussions because the black and white of such an example makes it easier. But still worth discussion so you have a reference point as you start working through the larger number of people who have elements of the extreme case.
"
The business reality of it is that (non-existent) skill set is not worth/valued at $15-an-hour, so either an employer is going to be benevolent and overpay until the skill level matches the production value, or they will not hire them at all. Mostly the later. This is where the argument of "the true minimum wage is zero" comes from. You can set whatever arbitrary standard you want, if the labor isn't valued at that wage, the employers are not going to have labor on the books at a net loss.
"
This is where all the rhetoric, and polling, and policy thinking and the good intentions met reality. If you take a person like Jaybird is describing off the street straight to employment they are set up for failure. It will never work on a replicatable scale. If they do not have a intermediate step of some job/skill training before they enter working environment, its doomed. You are not only talking about an unproductive employee, but also the disruption of having to take other labor off-line to train/mentor them. Business-wise it cost a lot of money both in time used and productivity lost to do so, and if that employee doesn't show it to be a wise investment that's going to get a return it will be cut off quickly. Its not just on the employee either; as hard as it is to get a raw employee trained up, getting experienced employees/supervisors to invest in mentoring others, especially to that level, is even harder since mentoring is 90% give-a-damn, and most don't. And all the while the business is dealing with these personnel issues, the competitive business world keeps turning, and doesn't stop, and must be kept up with.
On “The Triple Lens of Art History”
@chip-daniels
Completely agree
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I really appreciated this. I don't even pretend to be an art expert, especially such things as criticism and interpretation. I am perfectly content with living on the "Oh that looks interesting" level. But reading about this controversy when it immediately came out I had the same thought I have had about many such protests; that in demanding an immediate response to how they feel about a piece they miss the whole point. And art, like music and other mediums, can have layers in it, like @chip points out here, that normal dialogue misses out on.
On “The Yellow Journalism of the Culture War”
Good questions, lets go through them...
Kayne is a perfect example of this actually. Yes he is already wealthy but look at who is promoting him-Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk. They were all three posing together at TMZ's studio among other things. For Kanye, the attention and press is more important than the money, but for Kirk and Owens organization, Turning Point USA, as a 501c3 they live and die on fundraising, and Kirk and company have made it fundraising juggernaut. Something like Kanye is a walking goldmine. Last year mandatory filings arent available yet but previous years are and they pull in millions of dollars; and all that travel by Kirk, Owens, and others is of course vouchered by the org. Every tweet, event, media, all of it will be geared towards hitting the outrage notes then sliding in the sales pitch to get involved with TPUSA, which leads eventually to costs and earning revenue.
Less well known bloggers and commenters make ad revenue on their Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages if they get enough audience going. You can google the howling that's involved when YouTube "demonetizes" someones account for the effect this stream has on some folks.
Then their are the "pro-am hybrids". Think Diamond and Silk as this category, they present naturally as if they just fell out of the sky but they are coordinated, planned, and a business model based on the persona's. Their mailing address on their official forms goes to pre-paid mailbox in a quick pack store 5 minutes from my house. It's an act for revenue, thus their outrage that Facebook was "freezing" them out, that is their business model.
There are lots of examples but you get the idea. And "mainstream press" is actually doing quite well, newspapers what you say is true but the news networks have year over year increases in revenue.
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I appreciate you thoughts, and I agree with most of what you point out. It is a cultural change, such grinding of tectonic plates is going to cause ripples. You are correct it isn't ginned up, which is the analogy I was reaching for here; there was actual fighting and actual casualties then. The culture issues are very real, but I do think the ability to monetize them makes them worse, or at least appear worse, than they need be or are. Your point on the 60s/70s is well taken in that the perspective of outrage and "badness" of current issues needs context. We have, thankfully, not had a Kent state-type culture war moment but have careened close with Charlottesville, certain shootings, and others. Perhaps it a matter of time till we do (God forbid), but all the more reason to speak out for some restraint.