Linkage

• 'Reply-all' email chain sent to all 1.2 million NHS employees (Business Insider) Remember folks, BCC, not CC.
• The New Nobility Uses Political Correctness to Fragment the Precariats (Of Two Minds) Highlights the real problem of identity politics, that it crowds out social and economic class by its very nature.
• Student loans and why Clinton lost the Election (TheHill) A bit too narrow a focus, but Clinton's unwillingness to confront ballooning student debt is symptomatic with her lockstep actions with regards to the rentier class.
• The Simpsons: University of Glasgow launches course on philosophy of Homer Simpson (The Independent)
• D'oh!!!
• How CalSTRS Investments Influenced Workers to Vote for Donald Trump (East Bay Express) They put lots of money in with private equity looters like Mitt Rmoney, and so invested with the effect that good jobs were eliminated.
• Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs (Evonomics) Posits that the creation of necessary and soul crushing pseudo-professional jobs in our economy was a way to eliminate leisure time, because leisure time leads to thought, and thought leads to revolution.
• Trumponomics: It’s Not All Crazy (Counterpunch) Infrastructure spending and deficits are both good things in a sluggish economy, though as a counterpoint, the "infrastructure spending" appears to be primarily public-private partnerships which are largely an avenue for private actors to extract taxpayer dollars.
• How Economists Duped Us into Attacking Capitalism Instead of Parasitic Rent-Seeking (Evonomics) Our economy, and our "free trade" deals are set up to maximize these activities, with horrible results.
• P.E.I. farmer assists in near-eradication of methane from cow farts (CBC News) Adding the right seaweed to the diet drastically reduces methane emissions.
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street) (Jacobin) Our future Senate minority leader is whoring for the banks and banksters, which is what got us Trump.
• The Kind of Car Insurer That Gives Consumers the Best Value (New York Times) Cooperative companies (mutual insurance) provides more bang for the buck.

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