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A Hand Reaches for Whatever's Sitting on the Shelf. Economists Just Traced the Same Mechanism Through 21 Billion Facebook Friendships -- and Found It Predicts Who Escapes Poverty.
Nobody has to work to keep people sorted by class, background, or belief. Sorting is what happens automatically whenever exposure is restricted -- no gatekeeper required. What takes actual, deliberate work is the opposite: building a shelf, a room, or a network wide enough that the sort never gets the chance to happen.
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A Machine Already Displaced Six Million American Workers. What Cost Them Wasn't the Job -- It Was Where the Job Loss Sent Them.
The closest real precedent for AI-driven job loss isn't a labor-market model -- it's the Great Migration, when cotton mechanization helpe...
A 1967 Database Made Sure Your Record Never Stays Local. A 2003 Supreme Court Ruling Made Sure the Debt Is Never Paid Off. One Industry Opted Out of Both, for Itself.
Three separate decisions, seven decades apart, add up to the same result: reinvention stopped being available to almost everyone in Ameri...
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