This is actually my favorite part of the whole thing:
Democrats often see low wages as both a human capital problem and a problem caused by unequal economic power. Republicans are more likely to see them just as a human capital problem. If we’re going to pass bipartisan legislation, we’re going to have to start with the human capital piece, where there is some agreement, not the class conflict piece, where there is none.
See, democrats and republicans agree on the republican agenda.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:01 (twelve years ago)
"human capital" is such a gross phrase
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:02 (twelve years ago)
let's all agree that capital gains should be taxed no higher than 15%, and that the estate tax is theft, and the jobs will flow!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:03 (twelve years ago)
I feel like he's not the kind of writer that actually shapes policy; his role is more to attempt confuse democrats away from feeling too left about things.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:08 (twelve years ago)
yeah, i mean what has the middle class ever done for america anyways? rich people are the best
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)
his role is more to attempt confuse democrats away from feeling too left about things.
no wonder Obama listens to him
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:42 (twelve years ago)
12 Years as Human Capital
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 January 2014 01:35 (twelve years ago)
i mostly feel bad for people who are having things explained to them for the first time by david brooks
― flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:42 (twelve years ago)
i.e. NPR listeners?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:47 (twelve years ago)
no one really likes david brooks hes a token
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 05:01 (twelve years ago)
i mean
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 January 2014 09:14 (twelve years ago)
i wish that was true
i have conservative friends who call him a voice of reason on the left
lolllll
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:27 (twelve years ago)
that's hilarious
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:39 (twelve years ago)
lol but exactly and liberals call him the voice of reason on the right but he doesnt really have any influence
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:01 (twelve years ago)
liberals call him the voice of reason on the right
I don't believe this.
― channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:06 (twelve years ago)
thats his whole role at the times, the reasonable conservative
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:14 (twelve years ago)
its what hes for
I think that's what conservatives put him forward as, but I don't know of any liberals who buy it.
― channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:16 (twelve years ago)
i don't know any either but i'm sure they're out there, lotta dumb ppl across the spectrum
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:16 (twelve years ago)
its what the new york (mfn) times puts him forward as
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:17 (twelve years ago)
but i mean hes the voice as reason in that he behaves like a nice reasonable young man, no one listens to what he says was my original point
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:18 (twelve years ago)
hes a placeholder
imagine his son
― j., Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:19 (twelve years ago)
Kid probably just packs another bowl.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:25 (twelve years ago)
kid is doomed what with divorced parents decaying moral fabric etc
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:28 (twelve years ago)
Sure he'll get a nice inheritance though unless dad blows all the money on hookers/blow or leaves it to child from new marriage to twenty something model type.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:42 (twelve years ago)
thats what i wld do
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:43 (twelve years ago)
Sure he'll get a nice inheritance though
how wealthy is a david brooks???
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:45 (twelve years ago)
expert guess his estate is somewhere in the eight figures
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:46 (twelve years ago)
multiple best sellers, paid speaking gigs etc
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/IS/esq-david-brooks-new-york-times-102910-xlg.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:47 (twelve years ago)
"son, homeless people taste best barbecued, not fried"
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:04 (twelve years ago)
"how wealthy is a david brooks???"
Uh I'm guessing insanely wealthy.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:11 (twelve years ago)
he chills w the koch bros at conservative functions and thinks "i am not rich"
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:13 (twelve years ago)
I mean not CEO of Fortune 500 company wealthy, but lagoon's estimates seem right to me.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:13 (twelve years ago)
I know at least one self-described liberal who does. o_O
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:27 (twelve years ago)
some middle aged whites listen to him on npr and think "hmm, he's not shouting or firing a pistol in the air...let's give him a chance."
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:39 (twelve years ago)
exactly
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:40 (twelve years ago)
Top 5% of workers.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:32 (twelve years ago)
ha
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:33 (twelve years ago)
krugsy bogues isn't letting this one go
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/the-myth-of-the-deserving-rich/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:40 (twelve years ago)
man god bless krugman going over the same exact arguments over & over again for 5 years now
― flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:01 (twelve years ago)
i am pretty sure i have read that exact krugman post maybe 20 times at this point. it's still otm and it's still important and needs to be said. but i don't know how he has the patience. not just the column but on his blog, too.
― flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:02 (twelve years ago)
Have you seen him on Sunday talk shows? Each time he edges closer to the point at which he wraps his expensive scarf around Mary Matalin's throat every time she condescends to call him 'professor.'
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:06 (twelve years ago)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/way-we-live-now-by-david-brooks.html
utter destruction
― goole, Friday, 7 February 2014 20:00 (twelve years ago)
Wow, congrats on the byline to ILX's own Jody Beth Rosen!
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:01 (twelve years ago)
lolololol That's the other Jody Rosen. ikr?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:09 (twelve years ago)
sorry it never gets old to me
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:19 (twelve years ago)