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Category: essays

The Friction and the Fortress

August 4, 2026August 4, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

Why good innovations mint new elites — and how to tell the dangerous cases from the merely disruptive Every year something like forty thousand Americans die on the roads. The strongest large-scale data we have — from driverless fleets logging hundreds of millions of miles — suggests that within the limited areas where they operate, … Continue reading The Friction and the Fortress

U.S. Farm Wages: The Decomposition Nobody Has Run

August 3, 2026July 22, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

The wage floor for American farmwork fell by a third. Two different things could have caused that, one defensible and one not, and no one has separated them. In late summer 2025 the USDA discontinued the Farm Labor Survey, the instrument that measured what American farmworkers earn and set the wage floor for the H-2A … Continue reading U.S. Farm Wages: The Decomposition Nobody Has Run

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