@samhaselby One time in sociology class this kid said "as a creative writer . . ."

@jacobin Have to wonder about Chinese de minimis too. Amazon exploits that to the hilt.

Coming in August. Pre-order page up now:

@bureaucatliu He gives lucrative lectures at corporations to help them make employees happy.

@bureaucatliu He's now advising Oprah, and even co-authored a book with her.

@bureaucatliu It might be of interest for the book. If you don't know Arthur Brooks, he ran AEI for many years, before, in a gratuitous act of DEI, he was hired by the Kennedy School. But he quickly abandoned politics altogether, dedicating himself to starting a "happiness movement."

@bureaucatliu I wrote to a bunch of Hayek people to try to get them to review my book. But Arthur does not do politics anymore so he can focus all his time on being Oprah's happiness advisor. Even though he has a big staff they never wrote back, but did subscribe me to the awful newsletter.

@bureaucatliu I wrote to Arthur Brooks to see if he would review my last book but instead he signed me up for his wellness newsletter.

@jacobin Thanks so much for this. As I understand it, Amazon's very business model would collapse if they were compelled to negotiate working conditions. They can only maintain prices and service levels by inflicting pain on workers; if they give an inch the whole thing unravels.

RT @wmbanks0081: @_Floodlight I started keeping a list of all the words Microsoft Word does not recognize as words: solidaristic noncapita…

@_Floodlight I started keeping a list of all the words Microsoft Word does not recognize as words: solidaristic noncapitalist trillionaire precarity marketized financialization I guess Elon doesn't like them either.

@ByYourLogic My version of this was Archway cookies.

@sunraysunray On TV too

RT @wmbanks0081: @bureaucatliu My ex's principal act of resistance was switching to What's App. When I said it was owned by Zuckerberg she…

@bureaucatliu My ex's principal act of resistance was switching to What's App. When I said it was owned by Zuckerberg she told me I didn't get it.

RT @wmbanks0081: @MattPolProf It's probably a good thing you recognized this before you were 35, had learned the language and completed 4 y…

@MattPolProf It's probably a good thing you recognized this before you were 35, had learned the language and completed 4 years of grad school in Scan Studies. I wonder what kind of a moron would do something like that.

Thanks to Leo Lisi for the latest review of The Great Debate:

RT @wmbanks0081: @DKMarxSoc There's always room in ore hoose, said the Canadian.

@DKMarxSoc There's always room in ore hoose, said the Canadian.