I would absolutely watch a reality show in which coders and bankers had to do the work of subsistence farmers for a year.https://twitter.com/custerwork/status/1229463296287420419 …
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
The spinning backwards triple-dunks on this Bloomberg clip seem to overlook that he's talking about pre-industrial subsistence farming not requiring a highly educated work force. It's the same thing as the Bernie clip, a reasonable point decontextualized for maximum outrage fuel
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Replying to @Pinboard
a) the connection between tertiary education and modern economic success is surprisingly weak (Ha Joon-Chang is very good on this), b) it's quite possible to make this point without denigrating the learning of farmers.
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You really have to get up early wanting to be offended to see this denigrating farmers, or assembly line workers. The uncontroversial point is you can put people who have not had a day of education in their lives to work as field hands or manufacturing workers, not so much in IT.
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Is Bloomberg being condescending, or is he sketching out a line of argument? What are his thoughts on the role of agricultural and manual labor in a modern economy? God forbid we watch, I don't know, a *sixty* second clip to find out. The tweets must flow.
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Does Mike Bloomberg's instinctive condescension when making an argument he could have made a dozen better ways tell us something about him? Is there a consistent tendency in the US elite to denigrate 'unskilled' labor that reflects why people are enjoying dunking on this?
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
We both understand the thrill of the dunk here, it's a soft, arcing alley-oop that leads directly to every reason we have to dislike Bloomberg. I don't think it's a mystery why this stuff gets spectacularly dunked on, but what about the passing game? The fundamentals?
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Replying to @Pinboard
gonna have to insist you rephrase this in terms of cricket and/or the Eton Wall Game.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
These are bodyline tactics in a year when we badly need a unity wicket
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Replying to @Pinboard
honestly I think pouring all the rancor onto Bloomberg is an excellent thing for making whoever actually wins be a 'sure, I guess, fine' option instead of a 'NeverX!' for their non-supporters.
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The rancor-pouring mechanism, and the social rewards it generates on online platforms, are the problem, as the targets are fungible.
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Replying to @Pinboard
but since that's a problem we're not going to solve by the summer, having it directed toward a single billionaire is better than having it spread around the place.
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