Coops are making a comeback

A very popular mode of economic organization in the last Guilded Age, coops are now making a comeback in a variety of areas. This is a workers coop in the California agriculture industry. They provide migrant workers, but because the workers own the company the money usually taken as commission by the placement company goes back to the workers in the form of higher wages and  benefits.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90205860/how-a-small-worker-controlled-farm-collective-could-transform-labor-for-decades

Surprise! Everyone Still hates Their Cable Company.

According to Consumer Reports customer survey, cable companies give lousy service, poor value, and lie to people about the actual cost of service.

What's not to love?
https://www.consumerreports.org/phone-tv-internet-bundles/people-still-dont-like-their-cable-companies-telecom-survey/

Sometimes the simplest explanation is true

I just spent a delightful 30 minutes reading the complaint in Tribune's lawsuit against Sinclair over their failed deal.

Basically, the actual explanation turned out to be true. Sinclair were arrogant pricks who systemically pissed off everybody, including their merger partner Tribune. David Smith, the CEO, was a greedy jerkwad who tried to get all clever despite repeated warnings by everyone that they could totally tell he was lying about his corporate relationships.

It wasn't some deep laid plan by Rupert Murdoch. It wasn't some amazing complex combination of House of Cards and Game of Thrones. It was exactly what everyone had been hearing as going on behind the scenes for months and -- if anything -- was even more prosaic and stupid greedy than expected.

Unless we want to stipulate that Tribune is lying in its billion dollar lawsuit against Sinclair for some horribly convoluted reason involving the aliens from X-Files and the Society of the Blind Eye from Gravity Falls.

Good on Labour's Ongoing Infighting on Anti-Semitism

The article is useful for understanding why this keeps recurring. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/opinion/labour-britain-anti-semitism-corbyn.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion

In particular, it is important that the examples Corbyn (and his supporters in the leadership) decided to expunge from the definition of anti-Semitism included accusing Jews of having divided loyalties to Israel and their native country and of putting Israel ahead of the interests of their native country. Corbyn claims that this is either redundant or suppresses "legitimate criticism."

Oddly, Jews in England who feel they are being accused of divided loyalty when they disagree with Labour about Israel and the Palestinian conflict are finding this deliberate erasure Not A Good Sign and Not At All Reassuring.

  

More things I never understand

My wife made more money than me for the first several years of our marriage (when she was actually working, mind you -- she had issues finding a job due to Shabbos restrictions). I briefly made more when I went into private practice, then plummeted  to well below her income when I switched to the non-profit world. Over the years, my salary has increased at a much faster rate (a side effect of her working at a financially failing hospital until Obamacare kicked in), so now I make more money than she does. 

It never really mattered for either of us. It all went to the same place -- day school and mortgage. What mattered is we were both blessed to be able to do work we both (for the most part) enjoyed. 

But apparently we are total weirdos. According to this piece by the NYTimes, in couples where wives make more than husbands, both partners feel so bad about this they lie about their salaries (men inflate, women deflate). This apparently has lots of other impacts as well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/upshot/when-wives-earn-more-than-husbands-neither-like-to-admit-it.html?fallback=0&recId=18cJXqL3JwxvxIOjJKfAaJl9r90&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=MN&recAlloc=random&geoCountry=US&blockId=signature-journalism-vi&imp_id=835135452&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending

Peoples, I do not understand them.