Links: Stigma against tradespeople, Supreme Court campaigning and papal synodality

Links: Stigma against tradespeople, Supreme Court campaigning and papal synodality 

The way to get more people into the trades is to pay them to go to school. $18 per hour sounds like a good number, and to enlarge broad based employee-ownership so that all work has equal dignity.

An $18 minimum wage will get people wanting to both work and find training or education. As for the pandemic, if there is no fourth wave the economy will quickly come back - at least until bitcoin and housing finance bubbles burst again. All the more reason for a higher minimum wage. Workers with incomes spend money to get us out of recessions.

Employee-ownership will change the union movement from opposition to board representation. Before the Church stands up for unions, it should let its teachers unionize first, even the pro-choice ones.

The grids worked in Texas. It was the generating companies that fell apart. The problem with the grid is that it is not linked up to the rest of the country. Dumb Republican idea that the voters must live with until they vote the GOP out.

I know of a former Harvard Law Review President who would make a great Supreme Court Justice.

No one is about to kick the Bard off of campus and any teacher who won't teach him in high schools won't last long. Tweeting teachers are best ignored.

Synodality does not necessary ignore democratization. Indeed, it must not. Religion is no longer a cultural requirement, so it must make itself culturally relevant. If the past four years have taught us anything, it is that authoritarianism works badly in government, in business and in church.

The Tristar is looking pretty good 777 engines explode and shed parts in flight.