The debate about whether tipped workers should be forced to split their meager earnings with other restaurant workers bears vague resemblance to a reasonable debate. On the one hand, there are the tipped workers, a portion of whose income is derived from the capricious whims of an over-entitled (and occasionally sociopathic) public. On the other hand, there are the back-of-house workers whose wages are yet more paltry.
'Should the [comparatively?] well-off front-of-house staff be mandated to share with the back-of-house staff?' ask a class of people who claim to abhor what they are pleased to refer to as 'redistribution.' (We can pause briefly here to acknowledge the self-evident fact that there is no such thing as 'redistribution.')
The reason I think this isn't a reasonable debate is that I don't think it's remotely reasonable to force any workers to earn any portion of their pay from tips. Workers' wages generally are already constrained by the whims and fancies of their employers; there is nothing efficient about adding the whims and fancies of the customer base to the calculation. We've got enough work to do to make labor markets efficient; this latest attempt at wage theft is simply several steps backwards.
16 December 2017
Links of the Week - 15 December 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Why Evangelicals Stick with Donald Trump & Roy Moore
Stuart Rothenberg
Sting of Truth
William Saletan
Policy Mistakes
Bill McBride
The case for normalizing impeachment
Ezra Klein
Do Not Let Tom Cotton Anywhere Near the CIA
Fred Kaplan
O’Reilly Among the Snobs
Michael Kinsley
Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness
Rebecca Onion
The Republican tax bill will explode income inequality in America
Dylan Scott
“The hypocrisy is astounding”: this tax bill shows the GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud
Ezra Klein
Fred Kaplan
Stuart Rothenberg
Sting of Truth
William Saletan
Policy Mistakes
Bill McBride
The case for normalizing impeachment
Ezra Klein
Do Not Let Tom Cotton Anywhere Near the CIA
Fred Kaplan
O’Reilly Among the Snobs
Michael Kinsley
Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness
Rebecca Onion
The Republican tax bill will explode income inequality in America
Dylan Scott
“The hypocrisy is astounding”: this tax bill shows the GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud
Ezra Klein
09 December 2017
Links of the Week - 8 December 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
The best analogy to Donald Trump in 2017 is George W. Bush in 2005
Ezra Klein
‘I Want This for George’
Mark K. Updegrove
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
Luke Harding
The theory behind Trump’s tax cuts is exactly what gave us the failed Bush economy
Matthew Yglesias
No Moore Pretense
William Saletan
Choice and the Insurance Mandate
Paul Krugman
How to fix Congress: start with the basics
Gregory Koger
The rules of "how Congress works" have changed
Matthew Yglesias
Incidence and Welfare Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts
Paul Krugman
Why a Gold Trader’s Plea Deal Is a Big Deal for U.S. Foreign Policy and (Maybe) the Mueller Investigation
Joshua Keating
Ezra Klein
‘I Want This for George’
Mark K. Updegrove
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
Luke Harding
The theory behind Trump’s tax cuts is exactly what gave us the failed Bush economy
Matthew Yglesias
No Moore Pretense
William Saletan
Choice and the Insurance Mandate
Paul Krugman
How to fix Congress: start with the basics
Gregory Koger
The rules of "how Congress works" have changed
Matthew Yglesias
Incidence and Welfare Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts
Paul Krugman
Why a Gold Trader’s Plea Deal Is a Big Deal for U.S. Foreign Policy and (Maybe) the Mueller Investigation
Joshua Keating
02 December 2017
Links of the Week - 1 December 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
We’ve Always Known Roy Moore Is Lawless
Dahlia Lithwick
I’m a Black Veteran. Why Is Trump Making Me Feel Unpatriotic?
Theodore R. Johnson
The tax reform debate is stuck in the 1970s
Matthew Yglesias
Was the Democratic primary rigged?
Ezra Klein
How to Find a Smoking Gun in the Russia Investigation
Joel Willett
Trigger Warning
Fred Kaplan
Party leaders should lead, not get out of the way
Hans Noel
What Hillary Knew About Putin's Propaganda Machine
Rick Stengel
How Trump walked into Putin’s web
Luke Harding
The Russia investigation’s spectacular accumulation of lies
Michael Gerson
Dahlia Lithwick
I’m a Black Veteran. Why Is Trump Making Me Feel Unpatriotic?
Theodore R. Johnson
The tax reform debate is stuck in the 1970s
Matthew Yglesias
Was the Democratic primary rigged?
Ezra Klein
How to Find a Smoking Gun in the Russia Investigation
Joel Willett
Trigger Warning
Fred Kaplan
Party leaders should lead, not get out of the way
Hans Noel
What Hillary Knew About Putin's Propaganda Machine
Rick Stengel
How Trump walked into Putin’s web
Luke Harding
The Russia investigation’s spectacular accumulation of lies
Michael Gerson
25 November 2017
Links of the Week - 24 November 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Today's Impeach-O-Meter: Uh Oh, Carter Page May Not Really Know What the Fifth Amendment Does
Elliot Hannon
What the New LBJ Movie Gets Right—and Wrong
Joshua Zeitz
Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.
Michael Kruse
Lost in Asia
Fred Kaplan
Stop blaming mental illness for mass shootings
Dylan Matthews
The “virgin vote”: a historian discovers why young Americans once actually voted
Jeff Stein
Ta-Nehisi Coates has an incredibly clear explanation for why white people shouldn’t use the n-word
German Lopez
Atlas Shrubbed
Will Wilkinson
Come Back Any Time!
Fred Kaplan
Roy Moore response shows GOP deserves to die
Max Boot
Elliot Hannon
What the New LBJ Movie Gets Right—and Wrong
Joshua Zeitz
Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.
Michael Kruse
Lost in Asia
Fred Kaplan
Stop blaming mental illness for mass shootings
Dylan Matthews
The “virgin vote”: a historian discovers why young Americans once actually voted
Jeff Stein
Ta-Nehisi Coates has an incredibly clear explanation for why white people shouldn’t use the n-word
German Lopez
Atlas Shrubbed
Will Wilkinson
Come Back Any Time!
Fred Kaplan
Roy Moore response shows GOP deserves to die
Max Boot
18 November 2017
Links of the Week - 17 November 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Lost Cause
Jamele Bouie
Booker calls on antitrust regulators to start paying attention to workers
Matthew Yglesias
Paul Ryan Is Choking On His Own Mystery Meat
Paul Krugman
Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
Ta-Nehisi Coates
America is facing an epistemic crisis
David Roberts
The Protestant Reformation, explained
Tara Isabella Burton
Republicans should admit to themselves they mostly don’t want big change
Matthew Yglesias
How 'Supply' Became a Dirty Word in Economics
Noah Smith
Ted Cruz accidentally explained America’s gun problem in one sentence
German Lopez
How to Make the Gun Industry Pay
Mark Joseph Stern
Jamele Bouie
Booker calls on antitrust regulators to start paying attention to workers
Matthew Yglesias
Paul Ryan Is Choking On His Own Mystery Meat
Paul Krugman
Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
Ta-Nehisi Coates
America is facing an epistemic crisis
David Roberts
The Protestant Reformation, explained
Tara Isabella Burton
Republicans should admit to themselves they mostly don’t want big change
Matthew Yglesias
How 'Supply' Became a Dirty Word in Economics
Noah Smith
Ted Cruz accidentally explained America’s gun problem in one sentence
German Lopez
How to Make the Gun Industry Pay
Mark Joseph Stern
11 November 2017
Links of the Week - 10 November 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Some Misleading Geometry on Corporate Taxes (Wonkish)
Paul Krugman
The Recruitables: Why Trump’s Team Was Easy Prey for Putin
Alex Finley
How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
Philip Shenon
Yellen should stay at the Fed whether Trump wants her to or not
Matt O'Brien
House Freedom Caucus Proves It’s a Deficit Scam
Stan Collender
John Boehner Unchained
Tim Alberta
The question that matters now: what will Republicans do when Trump fires Mueller?
Matthew Yglesias
Incomes determine house prices : An illustration for San Francisco
The FRED Blog
Blurred Line
William Saletan
Trump, “Heritage,” And The G.O.P.’S White Identity Crisis
David M. Drucker
Paul Krugman
The Recruitables: Why Trump’s Team Was Easy Prey for Putin
Alex Finley
How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
Philip Shenon
Yellen should stay at the Fed whether Trump wants her to or not
Matt O'Brien
House Freedom Caucus Proves It’s a Deficit Scam
Stan Collender
John Boehner Unchained
Tim Alberta
The question that matters now: what will Republicans do when Trump fires Mueller?
Matthew Yglesias
Incomes determine house prices : An illustration for San Francisco
The FRED Blog
Blurred Line
William Saletan
Trump, “Heritage,” And The G.O.P.’S White Identity Crisis
David M. Drucker
04 November 2017
Links of the Week - 3 November 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
We Have to Ration Health Care
Vishal Khetpal
Certifiable Nonsense
Fred Kaplan
When people go around efficiency-boosting regulations, market failures happen, dontcha know?
Conscience Warrior
Vishal Khetpal
Certifiable Nonsense
Fred Kaplan
When people go around efficiency-boosting regulations, market failures happen, dontcha know?
Conscience Warrior
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies
Paul Krugman
Subsidies, Spite, and Supply Chains
Paul Krugman
The Worst Defense
Fred Kaplan
Impeachment Was Designed for Someone Like Trump
Barbara Radnofsky
Trump’s refusal to take responsibility is a deep moral failure
Dylan Matthews
Taylor and His Rule Are Not What the Fed Needs
Noah Smith
No Bush, No Trump
Reihan Salam
Paul Krugman
Subsidies, Spite, and Supply Chains
Paul Krugman
The Worst Defense
Fred Kaplan
Impeachment Was Designed for Someone Like Trump
Barbara Radnofsky
Trump’s refusal to take responsibility is a deep moral failure
Dylan Matthews
Taylor and His Rule Are Not What the Fed Needs
Noah Smith
No Bush, No Trump
Reihan Salam
28 October 2017
Links of the Week - 27 October 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
This headline is a nudge to get you to read about Nobel economist Richard Thaler
Dylan Matthews
Defending Thaler from the guerrilla resistance
Noah Smith
A Nobel for Humility in Economics
Noah Smith
Rationality and Rabbit Holes
Paul Krugman
Sorry, Trump, but Talking to North Korea Has Worked
Fred Kaplan
Census 2020: How it’s supposed to work (and how it might go terribly wrong)
Heather Long
The real fix for gerrymandering is proportional representation
Matthew Yglesias
Trump’s Nuclear Meltdown
Fred Kaplan
Steve Bannon’s Enemy Isn’t the Republican Party
Reihan Salam
The NRA Defends the Indefensible
William Saletan
Dylan Matthews
Defending Thaler from the guerrilla resistance
Noah Smith
A Nobel for Humility in Economics
Noah Smith
Rationality and Rabbit Holes
Paul Krugman
Sorry, Trump, but Talking to North Korea Has Worked
Fred Kaplan
Census 2020: How it’s supposed to work (and how it might go terribly wrong)
Heather Long
The real fix for gerrymandering is proportional representation
Matthew Yglesias
Trump’s Nuclear Meltdown
Fred Kaplan
Steve Bannon’s Enemy Isn’t the Republican Party
Reihan Salam
The NRA Defends the Indefensible
William Saletan
21 October 2017
Links of the Week - 20 October 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Nightmare Scenario
Phillip Carter
There Is No “Hope” With Mass Shootings
Jamelle Bouie
The Underminer in Chief
Fred Kaplan
Meet Kevin Warsh, the man who Trump may tap to wreck the American economy
Matthew Yglesias
It is fossil fuels, not renewable energy, most supported by US public policy
David Roberts
A Watershed Moment
William Saletan
We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
Christopher Ingraham
American professor wins Nobel Prize in economics for trying to understand bad human behavior
Heather Long
What’s a urinal fly, and what does it have to with winning a Nobel Prize?
Christopher Ingraham
Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for making economics more human — and more real
Roger Lowenstein
Phillip Carter
There Is No “Hope” With Mass Shootings
Jamelle Bouie
The Underminer in Chief
Fred Kaplan
Meet Kevin Warsh, the man who Trump may tap to wreck the American economy
Matthew Yglesias
It is fossil fuels, not renewable energy, most supported by US public policy
David Roberts
A Watershed Moment
William Saletan
We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
Christopher Ingraham
American professor wins Nobel Prize in economics for trying to understand bad human behavior
Heather Long
What’s a urinal fly, and what does it have to with winning a Nobel Prize?
Christopher Ingraham
Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for making economics more human — and more real
Roger Lowenstein
16 October 2017
When people go around efficiency-boosting regulations, market failures happen, dontcha know?
Apparently, putting more cars on the road, and encouraging them to drive around looking for a reason to be on the road, causes more congestion. I'd not seen that one coming.
Perhaps there's a way to cap how many 'ride-sharing' vehicles are out there. We could make little metal plates with numbers on them, and require the 'ride-share' drivers to affix them in some manner to their vehicles. It's sort of amazing to me that no one has thought of this.
https://www.axios.com/study-shows-ride-hailing-is-likely-increasing-street-traffic-2496568908.html
Perhaps there's a way to cap how many 'ride-sharing' vehicles are out there. We could make little metal plates with numbers on them, and require the 'ride-share' drivers to affix them in some manner to their vehicles. It's sort of amazing to me that no one has thought of this.
https://www.axios.com/study-shows-ride-hailing-is-likely-increasing-street-traffic-2496568908.html
14 October 2017
Links of the Week - 13 October 2017
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
A House Republican explains why deficits don’t matter anymore
Matthew Yglesias
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thanked Hugh Hefner
Carrie Pitzulo
How a Populist Sells Tax Cuts for the Rich
William Saletan
Something in the Air
Fred Kaplan
The Real Moneyball Effect: Our Fetishization of Data
Julia Rose West
Shifts Get Real: Understanding the GOP’s Policy Quagmire
Paul Krugman
Vince Lombardi Would Be Proud
Johnny Smith
Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real
Matthew Yglesias
Give Me Grant: An American Musical
David Plotz
Matthew Yglesias
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thanked Hugh Hefner
Carrie Pitzulo
How a Populist Sells Tax Cuts for the Rich
William Saletan
Something in the Air
Fred Kaplan
The Real Moneyball Effect: Our Fetishization of Data
Julia Rose West
Shifts Get Real: Understanding the GOP’s Policy Quagmire
Paul Krugman
Vince Lombardi Would Be Proud
Johnny Smith
Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real
Matthew Yglesias
Give Me Grant: An American Musical
David Plotz
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