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The Toy Store They Killed
Maryjane Williams learned her life was over on a conference call.
Twenty years on the floor. Five kids. She carried the medical benefits for the whole…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
They Saw It Coming
Responding to: “The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?”
Matthew Shaer · *The New York Times Magazine* · July…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
ICE, ICE, Baby
Vanilla Ice’s real name is Robert Van Winkle.
The man who gave America its most inescapable song about ice is legally named for a character whose enti…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The 281:1
Here is a number: 21.
In 1965, the average CEO of a large American corporation was paid 21 times as much as the typical worker in that corporation’s i…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Leap Barra and Fain Won’t Make
Source: “GM Cut 1,000 Workers at Its EV Plant, Then Added Robots,” Autoblog, June 20, 2026.
Two people looked at the same fifty robots at GM’s Factory…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
More Like Me on the Floor
By Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
A woman who works my old plant left a comment this week, and it reads more like a confession than a compliment. The first tim…
3 months ago
Profits Without Prosperity
In 2024, S&P 500 companies set a record: $942.5 billion in stock buybacks. Add dividends, and total shareholder returns hit $1.572 trillion.
Let that …
3 months ago
They Filmed the Wrong One
Source: LinkedIn video repost — Jean-Claude Tshipama, “La technologie au cœur de la vie quotidienne 🤔,” June 2026. Corroborated against CES 2026 floo…
3 months ago
The Gate That Walked Away
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The college is not in crisis because artificial intelligence arrived. The college is in crisis because the institution that used to catch what the…
3 months, 1 week ago
The 91% That Disappeared
Picture two men at the same press.
Same plant. Same line. Same forty-ton press stamping out the same steel bracket it stamped out a generation ago. On…
3 months, 1 week ago