Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. These are generally far more unstructured episodes. The inspiration for the title of today’s episode comes from Brandon Cutler’s quote from his match against Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli of the Blackpool Combat …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform “Degree inflation” is a known major issue: https://www.tearthepaperceiling.org/the-paper-ceiling Harvard study: 69% of jobs require a Bachelor’s degree or higher, 50% of workers don’t have one 61% of employers have rejected an otherwise qualified candidate because they didn’t have a degree A caveat: one downside of emplovers opening up who they …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform NPR interviewed a Federal Reserve economist and an economics professor from the University of Massachusetts who explain research that indicates profits are likely driving the majority of inflation, rather than workers demanding higher wages: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-price-spiral-wage-debate Greedflation article from April: https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/ Latest debt ceiling status: Meetings on Friday between leaders postponed …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform On this Advocacy Notes episode, I explain some of the most helpful lessons I’ve learned about dealing with the medical system in America while seeing multiple family members go through health issues over the past few months. Hopefully these tips will help you avoid unnecessary frustration and delays. Send …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. Life and health issues get in the way of everything The best plan can still fail if things happen, and they do 3 assumptions of all kinds of personal improvement programs. Know these and …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans have introduced a bill to raise the debt ceiling that includes a wide variety of cuts, with the most devastating cuts to social safety net programs disguised as “work requirements.” This shows how the GOP agenda is primarily designed to reduce the leverage of workers …
Subscribe on Your Favorite Platform According to numerous media reports, CM Punk is expected to return to AEW on a new show on Saturdays called AEW Collision, with disputes in the locker room reportedly still unresolved, a situation that threatens the existence and identity of the movement itself. AEW has been a beacon of self-governing …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Listener Question: “When social workers and police poll the homeless people in my town 60% of them say they don’t want any assistance. But the amount of garbage, human waste, needles in downtown and residential areas keep increasing. How do we help those that haven’t decided they need a solution?” …
Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Older and disabled people need remote work and can contribute well to society with remote, but young people also highly value remote work 2 in 5 Americans would rather die young than live in poverty https://www.chron.com/business/moneytips/article/More-Than-2-in-5-Americans-Would-Rather-Die-Young-12724960.php The notion that “If you cannot sit at a desk from 9-5 …
Subscribe on Your Favorite Platform I discuss the challenges CM Punk presented to effective leadership and sustainability of the AEW movement, the missteps around his debut and run leading to this challenge, what we can learn from late pro skateboarder Jeff Grosso as well as The Rock, the claims Punk wishes to return, why an …