Mammon category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
Honest to Betsy, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . Meet the privatization scam.
Ruining the Government Like a Business 0
As I’ve mentioned before, the business of America is giving America the business.
Facebook Frolics 0
Profits before people frolics:
Details at the link.
The Emoluments Ballroom 0
Farron follows the money.
This New Gilded Age 0
Aside:
I’m with Thom about watching election returns on television.
I’m quite happy to read about them the next morning.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom runs the numbers.
This New GIlded Age 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey follows the money.
This New Gilded Age 0
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty.
At the Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin makes a strong case that now, over six decades later, the Trump maladministration has decided to make poverty great again surrender.
Unguarded Rails 0
When I worked for the railroad, we were governed by the “Rules of Conduct” (I probably still have my copy tucked away somewhere). Of course, there were other rules and policies and procedures, but the Rules of Conduct guided them all.
The railroad can be a dangerous place. In the early days, one way that hiring managers would determine whether an applicant for an on-road job had experience was to count his fingers . . . .
Over that years, the culture changed, and one of the rules that was drummed into everyone’s head was this:
Safety is of the first importance in the discharge of duty.
Via The Japan Times, Gautam Mukunda makes a strong case that that rule seems to be unheard of at the Zuckerborg, or, methinks, among much of Big Tech, as they plunge into AI. A snippet:
Meta’s chatbot scandal demonstrates a culture that is willing to sacrifice the safety and well-being of users, even children, if it helps fuel its push into AI.
This New Gilded Age 0
In a longer article about the Trump maladministration’s attempts to destroy the Digital Equity Act, a Techdirt reporter makes what methinks a trenchant observation (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Emoluments . . . 0
. . . meet the Crypto Con.
This New Gilded Age 0
Sam talks with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, about how private equity firms are gutting the American dream for personal gain.
Afterthought:
They go into detail about what happened to Toys ‘R Us.
Trickle On Economics Rides Again (or Is That “Still”?) 0
Sam and the crew destroy discuss the rationale for not taxing billionaires offered by the Republican candidate for New Jersey Lieutenant Governor.