@horsewater @tracewoodgrains You can use what ever word you like but it isn’t meritocracy.
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Kyle Anderson
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@KyleAnderson99 @tracewoodgrains I'm gonna need a citation on that one, because I doubt it. What you're probably pointing at is that conservative judges (following Justice Thomas's example) often hire from outside HYS or T14 at a rate that liberal justices don't, but that's more anti-elitism than DEI.
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In a purely meritocratic world with objective admissions criteria, most of our lawyers would be Democrats. Product of the applicant base.
I don’t love this! I was one of the only voices against the consensus in most of my classes. But Merit won’t change it.
Evan 🏛️🪶🌹@Grand_Ole_Evan
I don’t think people realize what an existential threat to civilization this is.
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@horsewater @tracewoodgrains Because the Federal Courts have more conservative judges than liberals, and law schools have more liberal students than conservatives, those hired by conservative judges have lower LSATs and GPAs than those by liberals. But it looks equally good on their resumes.
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@KyleAnderson99 @tracewoodgrains Walk me through that one I don’t get it
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@horsewater @tracewoodgrains It’s because federal clerkships are a DEI program for conservatives.
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@tracewoodgrains I think this partly explains why there are so many impressive legal voices on the right. They’re arguing with adversarial professors and playing politics to survive in law school while their lefty peers are playing with consensus.
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@DustinIsWhoIam @Koookiiing Sectoral bargaining can settle it.
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@KyleAnderson99 @Koookiiing If a delivery driver is required for the product to be in the store then they will make zero dollars without drivers.
They’ll make zero dollars without factory workers to make the product.
And so on. Just how many people need to fight over that 100% of the profit?
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Is the argument here than when the cashier scans a $45 bag of dogfood, he has personally made the company $45?
Jack@whothehellsjack
No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I’m making the company. I’ll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It’s more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted
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@IBenWronged @Koookiiing 1. The word IF has a meaning in the English language and that is why I used it.
2. My larger point is the all employees even “low skilled” employees have value to a successful business and they are mainly limited by a lack of collective bargaining.
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@KyleAnderson99 @Koookiiing I go to Sam's, check out on my phone, and walk out the door. I haven't used a cashier there in years.
At the regular grocery store I use self checkout half the time because the line is shorter.
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@LeCodeNinja @Koookiiing It’s not like cashiers were highly paid in the 1970s so clearly other factors are a lot more important.
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@KyleAnderson99 @Jayseki @noremacback That's not true. It is especially not true when you import tens of millions of people. The relationship is asymmetric and dynamic, which is why the price of labor is variable.
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@Koookiiing @Jayseki @noremacback The value of a store is whatever marginal value it provides over deliver. Most of that probably comes from the employees.
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@Jayseki @KyleAnderson99 @noremacback The value of cashier is basically whatever is saved in shrinkage from people abusing selfcheckout + some fraction of cost to install machine
So, humorously, the value of the cashier is determined not by any labor he provides at all, but our lack of willingness to hang thieves
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@Jayseki @noremacback @Koookiiing Yes owners of businesses are as dependent on their employees for profits as the employees are dependent on the owners for jobs.
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@KyleAnderson99 @noremacback @Koookiiing also, this whole thing about picking one bottleneck and saying "they couldn't do it without this" is a bit silly. they couldn't sell anything without a working front door, either. so in a very real sense, "everything the store makes relies on the front door"
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@KyleAnderson99 @noremacback @Koookiiing if a person decides to buy a ICE car instead of an electric one, for financial reasons, does that mean they are *required* to have one? or just that that was what they chose
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@Jayseki @noremacback @Koookiiing If the store in question doesn’t currently have automatic check out then a cashier is required make any money.
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@KyleAnderson99 @noremacback @Koookiiing because at the moment, automation might cost more than it saves, depending on what the store is. but that doesn't mean the cashier is *required*.
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@KyleAnderson99 @noremacback @Koookiiing alright, so since the cashier is NOT required to process the transaction, then nothing the store makes relies on their labor. right?
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@nelsen_pacey @Koookiiing Where are they selling robots for free?
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@KyleAnderson99 @Koookiiing A robot can do a cashier’s job for free. Cashiers cost the company more than they make the company.
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@KyleAnderson99 @Koookiiing Yes they certainly can't automate the cashier position. It's impossible. Nobody has even tried it. The global economy would seize up.
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@Koookiiing The limiting factor is what someone else is willing to do the job for.
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@KyleAnderson99 Ok and they pay him $14/hour. Should they by your logic oay him $140? $14,000?
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@SarahLongwell25 The reason your efforts to stop Trump have failed so far is that you refuse accept that voters ARE that stupid and we need to act accordingly.
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The most self-evident thing in the world is that the President is committing massive fraud against the American taxpayer so he sent his VP out on a “Stop Fraud” tour as a kind of narrative jujitsu—because he thinks his voters are too stupid and partisan to notice.
JD Vance@JDVance
The good people of Maine are fired up and ready to stop the fraudsters. Great event with my friend @MainePaulLePage.
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Any theory of what's happening to human beings re: marriage and fertility has to explain why young Chinese people and young Americans both became deep marriage-and-family pessimists across the 2010s:
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@Luiz_Fernando_J Crazy how 3 of the “Big 5” studios are not in the top 5.
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2026 distributors race at US #BoxOffice is the fastest to cross the 3B mark Post-Covid, +2.7% over 2023 & +15.6% over 2025 at same point!
Distributors Top 5 YTD
#Universal 494.4M
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#Lionsgate 357M
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