Philly Libertarian

We need more advocates to tell City Council to stop meting out new responsibilities to L&I.

It's a scam in the exaggerated sense of the term because fusion parties are fake vassals for the major parties and NY's 2020 election reforms greatly limiting third-party ballot access should not be justified by their continued existence.

The latest round of Antisemites coming out of the woodwork has educated me on how a surprising number of people actually believe in the Devil and demons as real malevolent forces. How I, a Jew, apparently serve an entity I was unaware of further complicates the idea that the Devil hides himself.

‘How does the building not fall down?’: Philly second graders’ quest to learn about a project rising outside their classroom yields adorable answers Second graders at Fanny Jackson Coppin Elementary guessed that "four thousand million" bricks were used in the massive renovation project on S. 12th Street. They were close - it's 17,500.

this is very cute and dare I say YIMBY www.inquirer.com/education/se...

Philly native!

My entire argument was indifferent to the business and focused on unemployment effects.

I'm not arguing against it.
I'm arguing against the move some people make where they waive away the cost of labor as if it's actually profitable to pay people more in all situations

The purchasing power of labor overall makes labor less costly but it cannot overcome the entire cost

No that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works. Labor is not a perpetual motion machine. Wealth gets created when people create more desired goods and services more efficiently. Labor is simply one input into that.

No, the point is that these jobs are lost and not readily replaced in the economy. Given the pay, these people are most susceptible to being forced out of the workforce permanently as they cannot provide enough value for an employer given the increased cost of their labor

Honest advocates will accept the tradeoffs (though they may dispute the size) and look to make it up with welfare and training programs or whatever. Early proponents in the early 20th century actually intended unemployment because they wanted blacks, immigrants, and single women out of the workforce

There's plenty of studies to affirm the unemployment effect of raising the minimum wage. The CBO scores every federal increase proposal with how many jobs would be lost.

I just explained how many would be unemployed.

If they were able to get better paying jobs generally speaking they would do that. Raising the minimum wage doesn't alter profitability elsewhere. So generally speaking employers will reduce hours and headcount or automate and there will be fewer entry level jobs.

It's hard for me to not see the activists as the predatory ones looking to fit the square peg of "founding population aging in place" into the round hole of "problems that will occupy activists' time and produce something like a victory"

While our last report revealed that students and other people younger than 24 made up a large part of the gentrifying population, many of the new, non-Asian residents to move into the Chinatowns are older and wealthier than the prior decade. • The share of family households in each Chinatown increased over the past decade, in a sharp reversal from our findings in the previous decade. • The 18-24 age group also decreased by the largest percentage in each Chinatown. The 25-64 category increased in Manhattan and Philadelphia’s Chinatowns, and decreased at less than half the rate of 18-24-year-olds in Boston. • Residents of Boston’s and Philadelphia’s Chinatowns also became much wealthier. Median income increased by 14% in Boston’s Chinatown to reach $59,664 ($38,000 lower than the $97,865 median for the city overall), by 13% to reach $109,866 in Philadelphia (much higher than the citywide median of $63,000), and by 2% to reach $55,228 in New York (compared to $84,000 citywide). • As a result of the faster increase in housing costs than in income, the share of households that are cost burdened (paying more than 30% of their income on housing costs) increased in all three Chinatowns, reaching 41% in Boston, 47% in Manhattan, and 26% in Philadelphia. These levels of cost burdened households are higher than in the overall city for Boston and New York and contribute to the difficulty for long term residents to stay there and recent immigrants with limited income to move in.

There is nothing to say to people who look at a displacement trend driven by cultural preferences, and think they can downzone their way to preservation. You can't prevent elderly Asians from moving out or dying, and you can't prevent non-Asians from moving into old units thanks to fair housing!

The Asian population remained the same and is mostly aging in place as families have left to the suburbs. Not sure anything needs to be done about that.

Unless you're a trade press writing to those who hold certain assets...

YouTube video by Philly DSA State Reps Krajewski and Fielder join the DSA Strike Kitchen

Rep. Rick Krajewski: "We need to hate rich people again. We need to hate rich people again in this country. Right?" www.youtube.com/shorts/w6QLX...

We need to be ashamed of stoking baseless hatred again in this country.

Yet you accept that human driver risk is being imposed on you today? If you're concerned about accountability, determining the fault or error if any that caused an injury is far more straightforward and likely to result in consequences than the vagaries of finding drivers liable now

Compared to human drivers? Human error is by far the biggest danger on the road.

The non-productivity would be in case the human drivers couldn't compete in open competition against Waymo.

I like safety and choice. I don't like forcing people to support unproductive or unnecessary jobs.

I for one welcome our new robot taxicabs

NYC has one to commemorate the inauguration of George Washington. It was meant to echo the Roman Republic. So I'm not all that sure about the sole association.

Self-driving car company Waymo is officially expanding to Philadelphia The company will expand to more than 20 cities, including Pittsburgh and Baltimore, but no word yet on when people will get to ride.

WAY MO WAYMO! whyy.org/articles/way...

Is the overall suppressive effect of the review and vetogate worth it to prevent a couple of instances of slop here and there?

I ask because your column seems to imply that any project must have some referent or be some kind of iterative work on what's already nearby

I mean this sincerely as a question, do you consider any attempt to progress and build a new aesthetic--create a new history--as facially improper?

It's cute how socialists of all stripes love invoking the "Working Families" mantra.