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Last Checked Sept. 28, 2022

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Sun Jan 09 19:51:32 +0000 2022

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The one thing I'd say, though, is that it's not really a question of labor vs capital. It's that in most sectors neither labor nor capital is able to earn any revenue unless they're open, whereas with schools last year everyone still got paid even when they were closed. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 9, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think @adamjohnsonNYC does a good job of framing it — the view is that schools be closed because *everything* should be closed, it just happens to be that there's more leverage over schools. I just put myself on the other side of that. https://t.co/NvwxQyPYGB — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 9, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But again as I've been saying, there's this corner of the internet (not of actual elected officials) that has moved beyond trying to craft public health policy into trying to use the pandemic to model a half-baked post-work vision. https://t.co/MKAwOSfotD — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Something that hadn't really snapped into view for me until these past couple of weeks is that there are a lot of f… https://t.co/uNijVRda12

Posted Jan. 9, 2022 Hibernated

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