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I see a union in your future
From Harper’s Weekly Review: One day after employees at a Target distribution center in Charleston Township, Michigan were given a $2 an hour raise during the busy lead-up to the holiday season, some employees received fortune cookies with the messages … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer boycott, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged Harper's, Target stores, unionizing Target
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The glory of empire…built by slaves, reparations and lut
Those of us who read Jane Austen are not startled to face facts about the British Empire’s centuries-old role in slavery. Although Austen’s references to slavery are muted, in both Mansfield Park (1814) and her last novel, Persuasion (1818), the … Continue reading
Posted in Racism, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged "Country Houses and the British Empire", "Home Truth", Amazing Grace, Britain's anti-slavery laws, British East India Company, British slavery, British West Indies, Clemson University, East India Company, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Marquess of Lothian, National Trust Properties, Penrhyn Castle, Persuasion, Richard Pennant, Robert Clive, Sam Knight, Slavery Abolition Act, slavery reparations, The Legacies of Slavery database, The National Trust, The New Yorker, the old testament, the Ten Commandments, Tibet
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How far has AI taken us? This far
From Harper’s September 2021 Index: Percentage of Europeans who would prefer to have packages delivered by a robot or drone instead of a human: 35 Who would like to see artificial intelligence replace some of their legislative representatives: 51
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged artificial intelligence, drone package delivery, Harper's Index, legislatures, robot package delivery
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