What Happens When A Skill Becomes Obsolete?
What happens when a skill dies? The key thing to me is to note that skills don’t die suddenly. There is an inflection point that signals the coming end.
Tagged: jobs
Filler ‘er Up and Take a Little Off the Top
I realize this must sound like I’m reading the script of American Graffiti, but this truly was my life as an adolescent.
Serving Up a Recession
The COVID-19 epidemic will be the first services recession, and it could be a bad one.
Ben Shapiro Works Those Feelings
For facts not caring about feelings, there sure are a lot of folks getting all up in their feels whenever Ben Shapiro is the topic.
How White Working Class Culture Shaped American Politics
Saul DeGraw offers up some blunt talk to those who say that’s what they want from their leaders.
Sometimes The Headline Says It All
By chance, sometimes the U.S. News and World Report rankings provide actual insight validated by empirical evidence. This is one of those times.
Young People of the Internet: You Should Go to College, and You Should Really Stop Telling Other People Not To
More an more, people on the Internet are arguing that young people are better off in the long run by skipping college. They’re wrong.
Troubleshooting Inequality
In the past quarter-year or so, the economic news for the United States has been unpredictable. The end of 2011 and the very beginning of 2012 brought reports of sustained if not extraordinary growth,...
Characters And Records: Defining The President In 2012
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something:
Some Underwhelming Reflections on “3/11”
Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people, and I feel I kind of owe it to myself and others to share my thoughts. I haven’t really...
What Is Welfare For?
Writing over at The New Inquiry, Ned Resnikoff asks the Left to think a little more concretely about what it means to fetishize, as most have during the Great Recession, jobs qua jobs. Using...
Beyond Capitalism
Umair Haque has an interesting post up at the Harvard Business Review asking whether Marx was in fact correct about capitalism – not about communism mind you, but about capitalism. Marx, after all, did...
More government jobs to weather the recession?
I’m not actually opposed to the idea of hiring more federal workers – especially if we are in the middle of a balance-sheet recession. Obviously the hiring that occurred for the Census has done...
