Laissez-faire laissez-mourir economists claim that wages in a "free" market are controlled by productivity, and that they will naturally rise when workers' productivity rises. But it does not happen.

This article explains some of the changes which have pushed the income of most workers down over recent decades.

While Deadly DeSantis discourages masks and vaccination, he promotes an antibody treatment that does reduce the chance of catching Covid-19 for a few days.

The big drawback of that approach is that you'd need to know when you've been exposed to Covid-19, and ask for the treatment. In Florida, you will have lots of opportunities to get exposed, so you'd need to request it often. More likely, you would ask for it only occasionally, leaving yourself unprotected most of the time.

The antibody treatment is currently gratis, but I'm sure the company will start charging some day.

I wonder if DeSantis makes money somehow from that treatment.

A robot nursing aide and companion might be very useful, if only it weren't reporting on you for some company — and, in China, certainly for the state as well.

Chris Jackson was head of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. He has resigned, saying that he *believes [oil] companies promoted "unsustainable" [blue hydrogen] projects to access billions in taxpayer subsidies.*

The article supports my impression that the Tories' hydrogen project is basically a plan to help fossil fuel companies greenwash. It presents hydrogen as a way of reducing greenhouse emissions, focusing on the "green" hydrogen made from renewable energy, then invests in "blue" hydrogen made by burning fossil fuels.

Many Afghans who worked for foreign governments or armies were subcontracted, so the governments don't know about them and don't try to save them.

Subcontracting workers commonly facilitates abusing them, and the practice should be eliminated, but this case is especially bad.