@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Tbh if our poli sci faculty are this allergic to data I think we should probably engage in actual austerity and get rid of them lol.
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jerry
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Jerry: States fund less, students borrow/spend more. Departments shrinking, adjunctification of faculty, fewer sections offered. University spending is increasing in the aggregate …cuz they’re getting less from states. Students/universities foot the bill b/c of austerity ✌️
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It’s incredible to me that scholars who have lived through the collapse of academia over the last two decades can conclude it’s woke scholarship and not the politics of austerity and disinvestment that has ruled since the financial collapse of 2008.
Jennifer A. Frey@jennfrey
We are finally starting to admit that we have a "scholarship" problem in the humanities and social sciences. The solution will be to identify those institutional structures that have created and even incentivized these problems and root them out.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Which university is engaging in austerity?
This is of course rhetorical. The reason you are not able to point to a single example because in reality university budgets are at an all time high.
There is no austerity.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel The budgets are public. But I’ll be honest — I am having a hard time finding a university that is actually decreasing budgets.
In fact, after sampling a few, it appears that austerity is nonexistent in higher ed and you’re delusional.
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Jerry, you asked me if I had data and now you’re telling me you’ve had it all along. That’s great news! Your data will probably show you that states who help fund public universities have decreased the state’s share of the formula funding for a very, very long time. #austerity ✌️
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jerry retuiteado
If you don’t want lower-income people to be homeless we either need to:
— Relax mortgage rules so they can buy houses
— Legalize apartments everywhere so they can rent them
— Have institutional investors finance purpose-built single-family rentals
slowboring.com/p/maybe-all-re…
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@xwanyex Well in that case:
1) I doubt it applies to all apartments, only ones from the lead paint era.
2) It should've been **passed** twenty years ago! Lead paint is bad!!
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This was actually an incredibly smart policy!!
The societal cost of lead paint is extremely high. Landlords are known to cut corners and repaint apartments after every tenant.
It just needed to be repealed ~20 years ago, but there's no forcing function to repeal outdated laws.
wanye@xwanyex
In Rhode Island you have to pay somebody a couple hundred dollars to walk through an apartment to certify that they cannot find any evidence of peeling lead paint. Then you have to do this again every time a new tenant moves in. The idea that liberals are smarter than everybody else is so funny, man. Just this retarded make work program, a crazy waste of time and resources that’s very obviously gonna have almost no impact at all, because it’s a little more than an overreaction to a very popular progressive meme. Nothing will come of this. No gaps will close. Nobody’s lives will be improved. It’s all just complete nonsense. And these people buy into it completely. New websites, new forms, new bureaucracy, new inspectors. The whole thing spins up in response to policy fads.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel It is perfectly civil to point out delusion and economic illiteracy.
There’s no difference between you and a trump supporter though. Both live in fantasy worlds at direct odds with the data we collect.
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Using the words “illiteracy” and “delusional” are not civil…carry on with your day.
I was agreeing with OP, and you come in demanding that I show you data. Feel free to get it yourself, Jerry ✌️
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Pointing out that you’re living in a fantasy world is still civil.
It’s just funny that you actually believe in this ostensible austerity with no means to substantiate it. Such is economic illiteracy.
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Thanks for keeping it civil Jerry ✌️
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Only in poli sci do you find people who blame austerity without knowing what it is or being able to evidence.
There is not austerity in academia — you’re delusional.
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Jerry, you sound a bit hostile. Not sure why, since I didn’t besmirch you in any way. I was also trained in economics Jerry, so, I do know what austerity is. You can look up data as easily as I can. Not sure why you care so much about defending the “good name” of austerity. ✌️
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@theficouple I think if you’re not smart enough to understand an amortization schedule you’re not smart enough to receive student loan subsidies.
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Saddest thing you will read all day:
A 71 year old grandma from Ohio owes ~$108k of student loans.
She was as a therapist for 40 years making minimum payments.
Compound interest tripled the amoun she originally borrowed.
....Millions of people are in this silent trap.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Or more likely you studied poli sci and don’t know what austerity is.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel I’m asking for an example of a university so we look at the financials. Your “lived experience” is not so interesting. I suspect this university didn’t actually implement austerity.
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel I’m trying to figure out which school has pursued austerity. Do you have any examples of one? It would be great to quantify this problem.
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@classicalL1b @keithdorejel Hi Jerry…what university do you work at?
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@Keynesaholic @keithdorejel Where is the austerity? Is it in the room with us? Which school are you talking about?
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@keithdorejel Keith…spot on. Neoliberalism’s “golden child” (austerity) is a bad idea that simply won’t die…even in academe. After all, many older tenured professors believe that it’s all a “meritocracy”. Couple that will the increase in admin bloat and the over-supply of PhDs…disastrous
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@keithdorejel You’d have to think that university budgets are all at ATHs given the admin bloat that has ballooned. Is there any actual evidence of austerity?
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@lilbabygandhi @naaycoqui Not surprising that Hassan is trying to bully this kid. Dude is a tool of tools.
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I don’t agree with most of what @naaycoqui says but the way some of you are unusually cruel to him is insane. And it’s all because Hasan told you it was okay to do it you freaks.
DJ Branham 🗽@DJBranham
Democrats will say we have a young men's problem and then send this guy out canvassing
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@DickTur22168174 @theobjectivist If anyone feels exploited they should simply quit. The people who are not exploited can deliver boxes.
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@classicalL1b @theobjectivist So who's going to deliver the boxes then? And why should they be exploited?
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You mean Amazon honors its contracts. The driver signs with a delivery company. The company contracts with Amazon. Both agreements are voluntary. Both can be ended. You call this exploitation. Adults call it commerce.
Now ask what Amazon built. Same-day delivery to every door. Books to every village. A marketplace that lifted millions of small sellers from obscurity. Cloud infrastructure that runs half the internet. Prices crushed across every category. Jobs for over a million people who applied.
You built none of it. You tax it. You regulate it. You accuse it.
The driver is not a serf. He is a man who made a deal. Your contempt for his judgment is the only disrespect in this story.
Workers deserve a mayor who does not call their contracts crimes.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected. Workers deserve better.
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@comradetrend @CoreyWriting It’s about time the left stood up for trust fund kids with nazi tattoos who cheat on their wives.
For a long time they pretended they were above the degeneracy but they’re as bad as the worst maga and they’re coming to terms with it.
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@CoreyWriting Are trust fund kids not Americans with the right to run for office?
What about millennials whose parents helped them get their first home through a family trust? Are they inherently bad too?
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Graham Platner is a trust fund kid that attended elite private schools. Stop pretending like he's some everyman.
John F. Morton@musepwt
If you don't know at least a handful of guys like Graham, you've never done a day of physical labor in your life and you should really think long and hard about your own class position and why Platner is winning Maine so handily...
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@DickTur22168174 @theobjectivist Sorry but if your career ambition is to deliver boxes then you need to do better.
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@classicalL1b @theobjectivist You can't be this disingenuous
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With University of Utah and the New School heterodox economics PhD programs under attack, the task is clear: Mayor Mamdani must create a PhD program at John Jay College, City University of New York
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@26thAndGuad @YIMBYLAND Except the whole framing is just anti white transplant. They are clinging to the tenets of peak woke.
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@YIMBYLAND Everyone’s a blood and soul nationalist for the place they really care about.
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Subway Takes is basically just a bunch of clips of NYC leftists reinventing “blood and soil” from first principles
SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma@SubwayTakes
You have to be born in New York to be a New Yorker!! @JLo
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