Demographics: wage growth stalled in the ’70s and ’80s
Each side of this mostly friendly argument has a strength and a weakness. The difficulty of the wage-stagnation theory is that wages haven’t actually stagnated. Even looking only at men’s…
Demographics: The end of “everyone needs to go to college”?
The labor shortage is a long-term trend, not a short-term problem. This shortage is caused by smaller cohorts of new young workers due to the collapse of the fertility rate.…
US government attempted to control online speech about Covid topics
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
Demographics: Less demand for college degrees
‘Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper,’ Utah governor stated Source: Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant…
Public health: The purpose of public health policies was to enlarge authoritarian governments
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…
Public Health: If only we had 15 days to flatten the curve …
Nature seems to be arguing that we return to those hugely successful NPIs like lock downs and masks, which stopped Covid flat. Right.
China Covid Cases Surge Infecting 37 Million People a Day, According to Estimate – Bloomberg
If only China had locked down more like, you know, China, they could have flattened the curve in just 15 days. Trust ScienceTM Nearly 37 million people in China may…
Follow up: Expert prediction on monkeypox
I’m so old, I remember months ago when monkeypox would take over the world and we would all die. “Expert” Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, famous for urging closing of U.S. schools…
Demographics: Oregon’s population shrinks
Oregon’s population dropped in 2022 for the first time in decades, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency figures Oregon lost about 16,000 residents in the…
Demographics, Automation: McDonald’s adds more automation to new restaurant form factor concept
The fast-food giant is trying an idea that Starbucks has already been successful with. Source: McDonald’s Launches a Whole New Kind of Restaurant – TheStreet As previously stated here, the…