Pottery Wonk

Just here to post occasional photos of pottery I'm working on. And maybe the occasional data driven wonky rant.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@EaglesXsandOs @tracyalloway Yeah. They would have to be profitable enough to afford that, but incompetent enough not to notice.

And they would need to be secretive enough to hide the problem from investors, but open enough to allow a random consultant in on the secret.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@Bentham2024 @kamilkazani Yeah... I think it's ironic that socialism is almost identical to the kind of authoritarian aristocrat oligarchies that it wanted to replace.

But I'm sure every socialist will angrily disagree with that observation.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@MichaelArt123 Consolation for not winning the FIFA Peace Prize, I guess.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@LittleItaly_NYC @DavidFBrand I so wish you were right, but there doesn't seem to be anything in there about supporting more market rate housing.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@SukritGanesh @DavidFBrand This ain't that. He is promising eight thousand.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@DavidFBrand This looks like total shit. $2.5 billion a year for 8k housing units is $325k per unit... Not including federal subsidies and then inevitable cost overruns.

I couldn't find anything about market rate housing. Just a feeding frenzy of grifting that will raise housing costs.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@bradlander So what would happen the next time the Republicans win? They up it to 23?

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@JuniorMinton @emtoh I'm looking at a brochure in my mailbox from today slagging Democrats, promising M4A and literally indexing the minimum wage to inflation.

Even Trump isn't that bloody self destructive.

None of that is remotely helpful.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer I guess I'll just console myself by knowing that I earned my job and my paycheck, and that my job makes the world a better place.

At least I'm not a bloated leech using unearned privilege to suck the life out of the working class in blind pursuit of money.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer You defend a system that prevents working class people from getting jobs, just because it benefits you. You support a corrupt system that hurts everyone, so you can profit.

And you have the gall to suggest that you are somehow better than Wall Street guys who work for a living?

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@JuniorMinton @emtoh So if you don't actually disagree with the most mainstream path to universal, then what the hell are you doing?

You are pushing a plan that can't work, and blocking plans that can work AND lead to the same outcome. Why?

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer I'm genuinely curious now.

Would the city be better off if it could just pay market wages? You can get amazingly dedicated people for half the price, and use the saving to improve parks and transit.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer Do you think train conductors should make twice as much as people risking their lives on offshore oil rigs. You think they ended up there because they couldn't pass civil service exams?

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer Sure. You were lucky to learn about the system and jump through the needlessly hard hoops. Congrats

Does a conductor deserve to make nearly twice as much as offshore oil rig workers? Or even most wall street workers?

Why shouldn't people who work harder and earn less be angry?

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer They all have the same problem. Everyone wants a job that pays more than $250k, so how do you determine who gets the job?.

It needs to be hard or dangerous, so not everyone wants it. Or it requires luck or connections.

One guy gets rich. The guys who can't apply lose out.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@GamerGeekNerd81 @PolicyEngineer So you can make $400k a year, and then get a cushy pension?

It's a bit rich to blame influencers for not choosing to work for the LIRR. You aren't allowed to apply unless you are in the union, and you can't join the union without being part of the Old Boys network.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@JuniorMinton @emtoh Step 4: True single payer or M4A

Sure. Why not. There are fewer technical barriers to making the change, but less reason to bother. If everyone already has universal, progressive, affordable, and comprehensive health insurance, then most people won't care.

[Pottery Wonk @rob_deary]

@JuniorMinton @emtoh Step 3: Reform provider market and contain costs

This is much harder and riskier, politically and technically. But we aren't going to agree on any approach if you think 3 million health insurance workers can be replaced by a single price setting CMMS committee