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fairy tales about the labor market are conservative staples--they've been current since the reagan period during which it was de rigeur for conservatives to ballyhoo the expanding walmart sector as a viable alternative to well-paying jobs in production, which were fast being vertically integrated out of the united states. the right has never had and seemingly never cared to have a coherent narrative about this--they preferred therapeutic narratives the primary function of which was to enable conservatives to not look at what was really happening. instead, they looked at the Amazing Actions of Metaphysical Entities like the Fabulous Invisible Hand, which not even alan greenspan believes in any more.
but there'll always be a market for reductive fictions.
as for the main topic of the thread, i've read through it and cannot for the life of me figure out the grounds for ace's problem with people who are screwed at the level of wage levels because of gender or anything else for that matter being able to recoup the effective loss. i suspect that, at bottom, it falls under another conservative bromide from the reagan period, which holds that all lawsuits that damage republican-friendly interests are by definition frivolous. the reason for this has nothing to do with what the right claims for it, and everything with limiting redress, making economic activity as minimially accountable as possible--just as privatization was not about efficiency, but about minimizing political risk for the (conservative-dominated) state.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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