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am_Unition  ·  616 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ban the Phillips Curve

Larry Summers and Jerome Powell are absolute ghouls.

It makes at least some sense from a populist perspective to restrict immigration to strengthen domestic Labor's bartering power (note: I am NOT advocating for that). But it's hilarious to see Capitalist Fox News forced into pretending like they're in favor of it. Maybe they don't understand? Another stance they're forced into peddling to meet viewer demand?

And yeah, have fun with long covid slowly crippling the workforce because we completely fucking botched how we dealt with it. It's potentially a civilization-upending issue, if some of the new reporting is to be believed. And it probably is. I've still got this goddamn brain fog and fatigue intermittently like 4 months after my 2nd infection. But hey, at least now I can catch a stomach bug and be sick for 5 days straight and drop a few pounds!