EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

Yglesias linked to this article and then just basically ignored it

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/04/holding-corporations-responsible-for-workplace-deaths

jfc, this guy

just going for the most basic tired econ challops, its evil but not even fresh evil

Great takedowns of that piece by Erik Loomis and David Atkins.

Also this which begins

Matthew Yglesias—a Norelco marketing experiment to see if a hand-drawn Sharpie beard on a peeled potato could sell men's earrings—wrote a morally and intellectually odious article at his second job yesterday. His Slate column, "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK," addressed the deaths of 161 workers in a factory collapse in Bangladesh with the tone they so richly deserved: bored.

and gets better from there.

Atkins' response is terrific.

booming takedown

better link for Atkins one

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/we-can-choose-that-workers-not-die-in.html

It's such a tired, econ 101 argument he's making too. There's no reason you can't place some floor on what the free market allows. Yes, that means more expensive tee shirts. But maybe tee shirts are too cheap.

Aaron Bady ‏@zunguzungu 17h
Different Places Have a Different Likelihood of Being Murdered by Robot Airplanes and That's OK

I wonder what Yglesias is saying on twitter now about this. Is he doubling down?

From the mrdestructo link:

Pish-posh! He sets the fools straight: in America, dangerous jobs, like "fishing, logging, and trucking... pay a premium over other working-class occupations." That's why Americans commonly say phrases like, "I'm as rich as a fisherman!" or, when you see a man in a suit flash a wad of cash, say, "Hey, Mr. Rockefeller, what are you, some kinda long-haul trucker?"

Maybe Yglesias should becoma a non-union factory worker or a coal miner.

if he weren't a non-union factory worker he wouldn't be producing things like this

a Norelco marketing experiment to see if a hand-drawn Sharpie beard on a peeled potato could sell men's earrings

I wish I could write things this funny and get away with it

great zings throughout history

matt yglesias can go DIAFF

what does that mean?

he should look for new employment in bangladesh

this comment on yglesias from the start of the thread just keeps getting more otm

strikes me as the kind of guy who would have been a member of 'the best and brightest' or whatever

― max, Monday, January 3, 2011 5:45 PM (2 years ago)

Die In A Factory Fire xp

can we change this to the matt yglesias thread because i come here for some good timey Klein bashing and there's nothin'

klein is horrible in his own way but soo boring

something's happened to this thinking since he changed haircuts.

Adam Johnson ‏@adamjohnsonNYC 3m
@ZaidJilani @Bro_Pair @Mobute But I do think dragging @mattyglesias name through the mud distracts from argument. But I'm sure he'll b ok

Zaid Jilani ‏@ZaidJilani 2m
@adamjohnsonNYC @Bro_Pair @Mobute actually it wont because thats what he intended, he just wants clicks. i worked w/him. he likes attention

agree w this guy that yglesias is trolling, like he couldve easily made the same point in a far less offensive manner, instead he takes this ho hum tone about ~160 recently dead people and then doesnt even bother to connect the dots on his argument, hes not new to the internet

he works at slate

he probably got a raise

Another response

http://coreyrobin.com/2013/04/25/would-it-not-be-easier-for-matt-yglesias-to-dissolve-the-bangladeshi-people-and-elect-another/

Yglesias responds:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/26/some_further_thoughts_on_bangladesh.html

Of course he can't help but begin with telling everyone how "annoyed" he is at the response.

Fuck that piece of shit and every other beltway parasite like him

iatee's right, slate thrives on this shit -- half their articles are some lame-ass trolling of 'conventional opinion.'

In summary, I'm not a Marxist. But I worry that political conservatives are going to turn me into one.

yglesias otm

in summary

Oh you nerd Yglesias (yeah narcissism of small differences but JEEZ):

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2013/05/star_trek_movies_and_tv_series_which_are_the_best_why.single.html

leave it to yglesias to think voyager is better than the original series

Also in Slate, Matthew Yglesias ranks every Star Trek movie, television series, villain, and crew member.

Every extra, every continuity problem, and every time he desperately dreamed of Orion slave women.

Top Ten Tribbles

Ezra Klein just read a XKCD comic on air

and you were watching

hey man I lean forward

haha

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/15/eating_lunch_outside_sucks_stay_inside.html

god how much does this twerp get paid

youve done it again mr yglesias

http://prospect.org/article/ezra-kleins-blind-spot

Klein's article also never really covered rich people tax deductions, effective corporate tax rates (after deductions), or the capital gains tax rate and who that benefits

http://i.imgur.com/OfZYOtA.png

http://i.imgur.com/4SZfh3F.png

oh no who will save matt from weird twitter

http://i.imgur.com/ghw4mCj.png

The best strategy for expressing displeasure is to do nothing.

cause thats what he always does