Special thanks on this day to my great-great-grandparents who had the classic mid-19th century Irish experience. Survive the famine, come to the US right in time for the civil war, and have 5,000 children. All while maintaining allegiance to the Pope of course
Holy shit! Ray Wood, the cop who infiltrated the Black Liberation Front, wrote a deathbed confession letter in which he admitted his involvement in the NYPD/FBI conspiracy to kill Malcolm X. https://t.co/2N4OMgX8NI
All this to say, if you hear someone very concerned that the unemployment rate might get too low, you are correct on all possible levels to tell them to shut the fuck up
Economists love saying things like “if too many people have jobs, we’re gonna have to fire some of them” and also “people without jobs have something wrong with their Morals”
And if you’re an economist who happens to possess a soul you have to reply like “I’m sorry sir, but these citations prove you to be a bit off the mark on this one”