employment

Friday 29th of March 2024

2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason job creators ain't creatin' jobs Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The real job killer in America is auto- mation, robotics, artificial intelligence. You're not going to lose because your neighbor's child gets a chance to go to college. You're not going to lose because a hard-working immigrant family starts a small business. That's good for you! We never made that case. And the message from Trump was a retrograde message of nostalgia: “We can go back to the way things were. You don't have to compete with a woman for a job. Or with a striving young immigrant.” It's a falsehood that gave some comfort to people and gave them permission to scapegoat others. Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement Boys who fail at school grow into men who are likely to struggle in life. Poorly educated men face a brutal labor  market, as job opportunities in traditionally male, blue-collar occupations evaporate. Among men with only a high-school education, one in three is out of the labor force. For those who have a job, typical earnings are $881 a week, down from $1,017 in 1979. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Amazon.com It may be tempting to see the Amazon surveillance as purely a warehouse problem, and surveillance-driven variable pay as a gig problem, but employers face no legal limit to incorporating new types of variable pay into formal employment — and abuses faced by independent contractors are merging with those faced by formal employees. Corporations may soon jettison the fixed-wage model that has been a feature of blue-collar employment for decades. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence But for some, the fear that AI may one day take white-collar jobs is already a reality.  In an ingenious study published this summer, US researchers showed that within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT,  copywriters and graphic designers on major  online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings. This suggested not only that generative AI was taking their work, but also that it devalues the work they do still carry out. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, November 10, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Computer scientists are developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that can learn, analyse massive amounts of data and recognize patterns with superhuman efficiency. At the same time, biologists and social scientists are deciphering human emotions, desires and intuitions. The merger of infotech and biotech is giving rise to algorithms that can successfully analyse and communicate with us, and that may soon outperform human doctors, drivers, soldiers and bankers at such tasks. These algorithms could eventually push hundreds of millions out of the job market. Yuval Noah Harari, Nature, Oct. 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Paid-by-the-hour workers in low-wage industries such as retailing will be especially vulnerable. That could fuel a resurgence of labour unions seeking to represent employees' interests and to set norms. Even then, the choice in some jobs will be between being replaced by a robot or being treated like one. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The vast majority of Americans expect artificial intelligence to lead to job losses in the coming decade, but few see it coming for their own position. New York Times, March 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Automation The McKinsey Global Institute reckons that by 2030 up to 375m people, or 14% of the global workforce, could have their jobs automated away.  Bosses will need to decide whether they are prepared to offer and pay for retraining, and whether they will give time off for it. Many companies say they are all for workers developing new skills, but not at the employer's expense. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news If you want to make it in New York City in the TV business, you're going to have to fuck me, and you're going to do that with anyone I tell you to. citation Roger Ailes, to a television producer who he interviewed in 1975 and was quoted in the press in 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Big brother Automated personality testing of potential employees © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I can relate to so many of you who might be looking for a job. Believe me! Tiffany Trump, a law school graduate who's yet to have one at 27, other than appearing with her father, attending Fashion Week shows and interning at Vogue © 2020 Kwiple.com
By the numbers About 3.5m people were employed as cashiers in US stores last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics – more than in any other occupation aside from sales. The BLS expects that number to rise just 2 per cent in the next decade, far less than the 7 per cent increase it projects for the entire US economy. Financial Times, December 10/11, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount that Carrier promised to invest in an Indiana plant in a deal with Donald Trump to save domestic jobs: $16,000,000 Percentage of that money that will be used for automation: 100 Harper's Index, September 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which more Americans work in the solar industry than in fossil fuels: 2 Harper's Index, April 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers From 2000 to 2010, the United States lost some 5.6 million manufacturing jobs, by the government's calculation. Only 13 percent of those job losses can be explained by trade, according to an analysis by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana. The rest were casualties of automation or the result of tweaks to factory operations that enabled more production with less labor. New York Times, September 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Globally, the McKinsey researchers calculated that 49 percent of time spent on work activities could be automated with “currently demonnstrated technology” either already in the marketplace or being developed in labs. That, the report says, translates into $15.8 trillion in wages and the equivalent of 1.1 billion workers worldwide. But only 5 percent of jobs can be entirely automated. New York Times, January 12, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers If current trends continue, a quarter of men between 25 and 54 will be out of work by mid-century. Lawrence Summers, Financial Times, September 24-25, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In America only 15% of women with graduate degrees in science and engineering, which are in short supply, were employed in their specialism in 2011, compared with 31% of men. And nearly a fifth were out of the labour force, a share twice as high as among similarly qualified men. The Economist, October 5, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In the five years after a job loss, an American family of four that is eligible for housing assistance receives average benefits equal to 25 percent of the unemployed person's previous wages, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For a similar family in the Netherlands, benefits reach 70 percent. New York Times, September 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of US jobs created since the recession that have gone to workers with postsecondary education: 99 Harper's Index, October 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Capitalists say The only training worth paying for is paying your current job holders to train their H-1B replacements © 2017 Kwiple.com
Children Statistically, kids are safer from mass shootings in a meatpacking plant than in a school. Maybe they'll lose a limb, but hey, they'll probably survive. Best of all, they're cheap  and their brains haven't developed enough to form unions! Arguments advanced by a lobbyist for water-downed child labor laws like those being passed in many Republican-led states, as represented in an April 26, 2023, cartoon by Jen Sorensen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Class [In] a recent employment study … sociologists Lauren A. Rivera and Andras Tilcsik sent 316 law firms résumés with identical and impressive work and academic credentials, but different cues about social class. The study found that men who listed hobbies like sailing and listening to classical music had a callback rate 12 times higher than those of men who signaled working-class origins, by mentioning country music, for example. Joan C. Williams, New York Times, May 28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created. Donald Trump, America's conflict of interest king and biggest loser, by 2,864,974 votes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say When I run for president in 2024, we would have created so many jobs that I'm not going to run; I'm going to walk. Kanye West, a.k.a Ye a.k.a Yeezus a.k.a. Louis Vuitton Don a.k.a. Yeezy a.k.a. Saint Pablo a.k.a. Christian Billionaire Genius, on opening a shoe manufacturing facility for his shoe brand in Cody, Wyoming © 2022 Kwiple.com
Corporate welfare Amazon's three data centers in Ohio received $82 million in tax incentives and created 120 jobs. Iowa recently awarded $200 million in tax breaks to Apple Inc. for two data centers outside Des Moines with 157 jobs promised between them. Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Corporate welfare As the data centers' labor needs have shifted [from low- to high-skilled jobs], tech companies have begun breaking ground in less rural areas. New Albany, the wealthy suburb of Columbus, Ohio, where Facebook is putting a $750 million facility, has a poverty rate below 3 per- cent, an unemployment rate of around 4 percent, and a median household income of $196,000. Even so, Ohio is offering $371,000 in tax credits for each of the 100 full-time positions Facebook has promised there–none of which is likely to provide a lifeline to a laid-off factory worker. Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say In terms of artificial intelligence  taking over the jobs, I think we're so far away from that that it's not even on my radar screen. I think it's 50 or 100 more years. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, March 24, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Debt As the fabulous Michael Pettis explained a few days ago in an FT Markets Insight, US national debt levels will continue to rise unless we can spread the wealth more broadly, because as much as the rich can consume, they can’t consume enough to make up for a shrinking middle class, nor do they create enough jobs to make a sustainable labour market. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 31, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Drugs  The authors of a May 2018 research paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland estimated that prescription opioids accounted for 44% of the decrease in men's lablor force participation observed since 2001. Bloomberg Businessweek, August 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Duh obvious A new Commerce Department report says self-driving vehicles are likely to have a greater impact on job prospects of people who drive full-time, like bus, taxi and truck drivers, than on people who don't, like real estate brokers and plumbers reported by Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
E-commerce Bookstores and electronics sellers were among the first businesses to feel the full impact of the rise of online shopping, especially from Amazon. The job losses in these two sectors of retail alone are nearly double all the jobs created by all online retailers since 2000. New York Times, January 13, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
E-commerce Mr. [Michael] Feroli [J.P.Morgan's chief United States economist] calculates that if it were not for online retailers … there would be 1.2 million more retailing jobs in the United States. New York Times, January 13, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Elites say Export factories, import workers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment [Armen] Alchian and [Harold] Demsetz appear to be claiming that whenever individuals are free to exit a relationship, authority cannot exist within it. This is like saying that Mussolini was not a dictator, because Italians could emigrate. While emigration rights may give governors an interest in voluntarily restraining their power, such rights hardly dissolve it. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment As many as 30 million American workers without four-year college degrees have the skills to realistically move into new jobs that pay on average 70 percent more than their current ones. That estimate comes from a collaboration of academic, nonprofit and corporate researchers who mined data on occupations and skills. New York Times, December 3, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Employment [A]t-will employment, which entitles employers to fire workers for any or no reason, grants the employer sweeping legal authority not only over workers' lives at work but also over their off-duty conduct. … The state  has established the constitution of the government of the workplace: it is a form of private government. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment The country typically creates some 5 million jobs in any given month, economists say–offset by nearly as many jobs that are eliminated, with the difference working out to a net gain of about 180,000 a month in recent years. “When you have almost 200 million workers in the U.S., you cannot move the needle cutting deals for 800 jobs,” said Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economist. “If Trump can make one deal a day, it would take him 20 years to create as many jobs as the U.S. economy does in one month. It makes great media but poor government.” Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable. … So what will the useless class do all day? Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The economy increasingly requires people with very high skills or very few. The far more numerous jobs requiring “middle” skills that could be learned principally on the job are disappearing. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Employers can already act on their prejudices to deny people a job. But facial recognition [software] could make such bias routine, enabling firms to filter all job applications for ethnicity and signs of intelligence and sexuality. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Employment growth is slow and unsteady at most small firms, with the median small business adding fewer than one full-time position a year, despite the sector'r reputation as the engine of U.S. job growth. Share of small firms adding or losing employees in a year Gained more than 2 20.4% Gained 1–2 11.4% Gained less than 1 31.7% Lost less than 1 21.0% Lost more than 1 15.5%  Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Even within Los Angeles County, there had seemed no meaningful understand- ing that if General Motors shut down its assembly plant in Van Nuys, say, as it did in fact do in 1992, twenty-six hundred jobs lost, the bell would eventually toll in Bell Air, where the people lived who held the paper on the people who held the mortgages in Van Nuys. Joan Didion, Where I Was From © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment General, what job do you want? Ivanka Trump, to Michael T. Flynn, whom she invited to a Nov. 11, 2016, meeting of the Trump transition team without telling chairman Chris Christie, who had warned Trump about hiring Flynn © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment  Handmaids Tale called and you got the job @OutlawII to Katie Britt while watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Employment I'm sad to give up the best job in the world. But them's the breaks. Boris Johnson, July 7, 2022, announcing he's resigning as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his government was discredited by a series of scandals © 2022 Kwiple.com
Employment In the employment contract … the workers cannot separate them- selves from the labor they have sold; in purchasing command over labor, employers purchase command over people.  Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment There's a beauty in those two words. When you utter those words, there's very little that can be said. There's a succinctness to those words. Donald Trump on his catchphrase, “You're fired!” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Employment They [economists Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand] show that since 2000 the share of employment accounted for by high- skilled jobs in America has been falling. As a result, college-educated workers are taking on jobs that are cognitively less demanding, displacing less educated workers. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gig economy It has never been easier to find little jobs for little payments. Tim Harford, Financial Times, December 21, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Globalization The biggest economic winners of the last 40 years were highly skilled natives living in superstar cities. They risk becoming the biggest losers of the next era. To quote the scary new mantra: if you can do your job from anywhere, someone anywhere can do your job. Lesser-skilled workers in western countries have been through this already, when jobs in factories, call centres and back office were offshored. Parisian graphic designers and New York bankers may be about to find out what that feels like. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, March 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Government Government is everywhere, not just in the form of the state, but even more pervasively in the workplace. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Government workers who publicly support gun controls should be fired for failing to defend constitutional rights  © 2018 Kwiple.com
House of Representatives  Once you've got the gig,  it's yours for life. The reelection rate for incumbents in 2020 was 95%. That's better job security than a pedophile priest. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Income growth An analysis of American wage growth by economists at the New York Federal Reserve showed that the bulk of earnings growth took place between the ages of 25 and 35; on average, after the age of 45 only the top 2% of lifetime earners see any earnings growth. So it is vital for people to move quickly into work once qualified and to hold on to jobs once they get them. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Income growth If there is an explanation as to why U.S. middle-class incomes have stagnated this is it: whatever jobs the United States is able to create are in the least efficient parts of the economy, the types that neither computers, nor China, have yet found a way of eliminating. That trend is starting to lap at the feet of more educated American workers. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Income inequality The CEOs of the fifty firms that laid off the most workers during the depths of the Great Recession took home nearly $12 million (on average) in 2009, 42 percent more than the CEO pay average at S&P 500 firms as a whole. Ronald P. Formisano, Plutocracy in America © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary cost cutting (kôst kut'ing), n. Euphemism for firing people. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary e-commerce (ē'kom'ərs), n. Killer of jobs, killer of sales tax revenues, killer of local services, killer of local communities, incubator of inequality. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary flexible labor (flek'sə bəl lā'bər), n. Disposible workers. Human Pez. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary mandatory arbitration (man'də tôr'ē är'bi trā'shən), n. A process a company uses to cut its costs by forcing people to give up their right to sue it – especially in a class action suit – in exchange for giving it the right repossess or foreclose on their property, and to collect financial damages from them based on the decision made by an arbitrator it selected and paid and whose decision can only be appealed at prohibitive time and cost. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary reshoring (ri shôr'ing), n. Replacing low-paid workers overseas with cheaper robots here. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary right to work law (rīt tōō wûrk lō), n. A law intended to kill unions by guaranteeing those who don't join all the rights and benefits unions win for their members, without having to pay union dues. Popular with Republicans and free riders, a large subset of the morally handicapped. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary self-employed (self em ploid'), adj. How 50- and 60-year-olds describe themselves after exhausting unemployment insurance. Also called freelancing. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Calculate the minimum wage as follows: MW = CMHI / CMHS × WPY × HPW where: MW = Minimum Wage CMHI = Current Median Household Income, e.g., $65,000 CMHS = Current Median Household Size, e.g., 2.1 people WPY = Workdays Per Year, e.g., 240 HPW = Hours Per Workday, e.g., 8 [MW would be $16.12 using data above] © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Develop a publicly-funded, national, employee-owned digital platform for hiring and providing benefits and pensions for gig economy workers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Overturn the Citizens United decision allowing employers to discuss political candidates and issues with employees and to provide them with “information packets” about candidates and issues – activities implying that the employees may lose their job if they don't side with their employers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say What good are low-priced imports if you no longer have a job or don't earn enough to afford them? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Having a job for life © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis © 2016 Kwiple.com
Markets In ordinary markets, a vendor can sell their product to a buyer, and once the transaction is complete, each walks away as free from the other as before. Labor markets are different. When workers sell their labor to an employer, they have to hand themselves  over to their boss, who gets to order them around. The labor contract, instead of leaving the seller as free as before, puts the seller under the authority of their boss. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Markets People continue to deploy the same justification of market society – that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority – long after it failed to deliver on its original aspiration. … a political agenda that once promised equalizing as well as liberating outcomes turned into one that reinforced private, arbitrary, unaccountable government over the vast majority. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Pain Drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, they treat all kinds of pain. The pain of being a single mom looking after a kid. The pain of that person who who doesn't have a job. The pain of, I'm 20 years old, nobody cares. The pain of being bullied. The pain of I'm gay. It treats all of those pains. It's more about this social angst of there are no jobs. The economy's crushed. This is a state that's been marginalized in so many ways. Drugs are a solution to that. A Petersburg, West Virginia, doctor jailed for illegally prescribing pain killers, quoted in The Guardian, June 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Populism Demagogues don't arise by talking about irrelevant issues. Demagogues rise by talking about issues that matter to people, and that more conventional leaders appear unwilling or unable to address: unemployment in the 1930s, crime in the 1960s, mass immigration now. Voters get to decide what the country's problems are. Political elites have to devise solutions to those problems. If difficult issues go unaddressed by responsible leaders, they will be exploited by irresponsible ones. David Frum, The Atlantic, April 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Ford's “people efficiency actions” joins a long list of pusillanimous terminology intended to make you forget for just a moment, that these are working people whose lives will be upended. The list includes: Downsizing Eliminating Rightsizing   redundancies Smartsizing Delayering Reduction in Workforce   force (RIF)   optimization Headcount Rebalancing   reduction   the level of Adjusting to   human capital   shifts in demand Offboarding Force shaping withoutbullshit.com, May 17, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse PR people, if you have something unpleasant to say, just say it. Hiding it behind euphemisms doesn't fool anyone. Today's case study: Ford's plan lay off 10% of its staff, which it calls a “people efficiency action.” withoutbullshit.com, May 17, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say All employment should be “at-will,” when redefined to mean all employers should have the right to fire anyone at any time for any or no reason without exception  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing employers to force employees to give up their right to join class action suits against them is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing employers to steal wages from tipped workers is change we believe in  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Get people working and make them happier by denying them Medicaid  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Hire the morally handicapped, then shield and defend them © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Let employers who oppose hiring employees require low-wage workers to incorporate themselves or pay franchise fees before hiring them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Personal loyalty to the President far outweighs your eligibility for some damn security clearance heretofore needed for a job he wants you to have © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice blue-collar jobs on the altar of tax cuts for the rich © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice employment on the altar of the inflation rate © 2015 Kwiple.com
Robots Businesses turn to software robots for office work The rise of the bots promises to bring sweeping changes for cubicle dwellers. Some 4m of these people in the US are likely to see their jobs taken over by the end of 2021, says Craig Le Clair, an analyst at Forrester Research. Each bot can handle the work it would take three or four full-time workers to perform, he says. And at $8,000- $9,000 a year in licensing fees, they are a lot cheaper. Financial Times, March 9, 2018, on robotic process automation (RPA) software, which “takes the robot out of the human” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Robots A computer doesn't need to replicate the entire spectrum of your intellectual capability in order to displace you from your job; it only needs to do the specific things you are paid to do. Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three- fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu of M.I.T. and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University. It appears to be the first study to quantify large, direct, negative effects of robots. … The researchers said they were surprised to see very little employ- ment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. New York Times, March 28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Well, we're just going to replace them all with robots. Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, responding to concerns expressed about discontent among Uber's drivers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Silicon Valley Creator of job losses elsewhere © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Automation doesn't threaten mass unemployment or greater inequality © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Getting firms to bring money home by lowering taxes on profits earned abroad will create more jobs for humans here than for robots © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say A job is the ticket out of poverty © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say More jobs means less racism © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Raising the minimum wage leads to a loss of jobs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Smart retailers are using digital to make their associates better at their jobs, not eliminate their jobs. An e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research, quoted in The Guardian, August 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union Employers assuming workers have no other responsibilities © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Entry-level jobs now the best job many will have in their lifetime © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Getting a job requires more work and time than ever © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Go voluntarily and we'll say we laid you off © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union A lifetime of temporary work becoming the new normal © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Prime-aged workers being displaced by younger and older ones © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Starting wage becoming ending wage as incremental wage raises are replaced by occasional cash or non-cash “bonuses” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Under the new law, income made by American companies' overseas subsidiaries will face United States taxes that are half the rate applied to their domestic income, 10.5 percent compared with the new top corporate rate of 21 percent. … Under the new rules, beyond the lower rate, companies will not have to pay United States taxes on the money they earn from plants or equipment located abroad, if those earnings amount to 10 percent or less of the total investment. New York Times, January 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Moms are persona non grata as co-workers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Replace other people with robots © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Software is eating the world. Marc Andreessen, Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say There's billions to be made in killing millions of jobs --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I just couldn't believe that this guy – all this stuff he said the whole campaign – he's not even president yet and he worked on this deal with the company. I'm just in shock. A lot of the workers are in shock. We can't believe something good finally happend to us. It felt like a victory for the little people. A Carrier employee, after Trump met company officials before being inaugurated and announced 1,000 jobs would remain in Indiana © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality American elites have stored more wealth than they can consume. This creates three problems for everyone else. First, elites invest their surpluses in replicating their advantages. … The second response to having such vast wealth is to create other kinds of scarcity [especially of nonmaterial goods like Ivy League acceptances]. … The third challenge is the hardest to fix. … Kids must study harder and for longer than their parents to find jobs that do not often repay the effort. Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work [I]t is the state that establishes the default constitution of workplace governance. It is a form of authoritarian, private government, in which, under employment-at-will, workers cede all  their rights to their employers, except those specifically reserved for them by law. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work requirements On welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Off welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Jason DeParle, American Dream  © 2018 Kwiple.com