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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      As someone who was trained in history, I'm amazed by what some economists think constitutes evidence.pic.twitter.com/6azgrUnBSv

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      On top of everything else, the specific prediction made in the cited tweet didn't happen. The most productive writers didn't leave Gawker. Gawker was destroyed by a vindictive plutocrat exploiting his wealth & legal system. Maybe "econ lit" should study that!pic.twitter.com/qTJCqSu5o0

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        2. Reginald Glenn  ♨️‏ @Britonomist 7 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Are you sure it wasn't destroyed by being bad salacious trash that published someone's sex tape without consent, opening it up to an easy lawsuit?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020
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          Yeah, pretty sure since the lawsuit would have been settled out of court if it weren't for the plutocrat financing the suit with the specific intent of shutting down a media outlet he didn't like. Learn the facts Jack!

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        1. Tom‏ @tomhbunting 7 Dec 2020
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          And then the writers who survived the Gawker explosion were slowly driven out/laid-off/fired by a series of incompetent managers at GMG and G/O! Seems like an argument for more workplace solidarity if anything!

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        2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 7 Dec 2020
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          Vox unionized a couple years ago and now all their most famous writers left eight months into an economically catastrophic pandemic, shortly after the end of a four year political era, an end that seemed likely to change opinion writing. I guess he'd ascribe it to unionization?

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        1. Joshua‏ @MoshuaJoss 7 Dec 2020
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          That said, I would like to know what’s going on at Vox.

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        2. Jamie Dissent‏ @JamesDissent 7 Dec 2020
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          My claim: everything started going downhill when economists replaced lawyers as the most influential profession in public policy/government. Essentially shifted from governance largely based on rights/freedoms/process to ideology dressed up in pseudo-science.

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        3. Jamie Dissent‏ @JamesDissent 7 Dec 2020
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          The lawyers weren't perfect, of course-- often the rights, freedoms, justice, and process were only available to some and not others. But over time, they would become more broad and inclusive, moving toward a more Perfect Union, as the lawyers wrote in the Constitution itself.

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        1. home skillet‏ @ralph_squillace 7 Dec 2020
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          I like that immediately afterward he lamented that toxic twitter was out after him. Uh, that's how you make money, my dood.

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        1. Joel Hatch‏ @cajoelme 7 Dec 2020
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          I have been a member of Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA for about 35 years. I am racking my brain to think of one of our most productive workers who has felt compelled to leave because the union was hampering them.

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