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9 Responses to “10 Mid-Week PM Reads”

1. nofoulsontheplayground Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 5:39 pm

   That MoJo article was on last night’s list. Did something get left out of tonight’s reading list, or did BR and Anna get their lines crossed today?

2. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 5:43 pm

   for those so enamored with the ‘MoJo’-article..

   they may care to understand some of..

   http://search.yippy.com/search?query=Kiva+Robotics+Warehousing+Systems&tb=sitesearch-all&v%3Aproject=clusty

3. patfla Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 6:13 pm

   Something I read recently:

   http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/shame-on-the-rich.html?ref=hp

4. willid3 Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 7:35 pm

   when i first saw that article , i couldn’t understand how those jobs were so stressful as they are described cause in a previous life i worked for a company that had automated its warehouse, and I don’t recall their workers having any thing like those conditions. but that was the 1980s, so maybe workers got better treatment then?

5. glengarry Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 8:06 pm

   Why women cry – not to avoid getting laid:
   http://scienceblogs.com/observations/2011/01/why_do_women_cry_obviously_its.php

6. theexpertisin Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 8:10 pm

   Pakistan officials and citizens knowing Bin-Laden was living in Pakistan is a news story?

   Really??

7. algernon Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 9:20 pm

   Granthem talks as if capitalism is what is going on. That is kind of silly. There is an awful lot of socialism & fascism [intermingling of govt & corporate interest] polluting our markets. The most central price of our economy is fixed at negative real rates by the witchdoctors in that Politburo called the Fed.

   In a capitalist economy, we would be free to use money that is backed by something. We’ve lost that set of freedoms. If you have a cow, you can’t even legally sell your neighbor milk. We would know a free market if it bit us in the…

8. SCTTD Says:
   February 29th, 2012 at 9:46 pm

   The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard

   Given the state of affairs, it may not be incorrect to suspect that would indeed double net savings….

9. landrey Says:
   March 1st, 2012 at 6:15 pm

   Thanks for the MoJo article, “I was a Warehouse Wage Slave.” No amount of convenience ordering from Amazon can make up for the deliberate degradation of the people in their warehouses filling our orders.