You're going to have to bite bullet and pay a pipefitter more than twenty-three dollars an hour and some grudging overtime hours

Shipyards are behind because America spent decades gutting skilled trades and disrespecting the people who actually build things. Now the welders are old, machinists are retiring, the pipeline is dry, and leadership wants miracles. You can’t rebuild industry with PowerPoints.

$25 an hour for skilled labor in dangerous conditions. Which has probably barely increased since 2019. So... mystery solved.

I think Zohran's co-opting of efficiency from the right will be seismic for the American socialist project. We need to run a national campaign against The Contractor State—neoliberalism's grand, massively inefficient outsourcing of government functions to private contractors.

Unpaid lunches should be illegal.

St. Louis needs to stop saying, "No, that won't or can't happen," and start asking, "Why not St. Louis," and make it happen.

We’re seeing Mamdani, Talarico, and Platner running on issues and morals that matter to the working class Americans and they are surging in the polls. Mamdani is the dems most popular politician. And y’all telling me the youth wants centrist-like candidates? 😭

“Only about 7% of the federal workforce is under age 30.”

#STL

“I want to play another game, Anon. Every year I’m going to give you 5% more money and every year I’m going to increase your cost of living by 9%. Eventually you’ll make more money on average than anyone in human history yet possess far less than your parents or grandparents.”

this is my dream for St. Louis

It's surprising to me when rich people are Very Online. I'm here because I have an email job. You could be anywhere in the world but you're here on Twitter.

The richest people in America used to build libraries/theatres/parks. Now they do what??? Crypto rug pulls and surveillance state propaganda??? Some bullshit

Long commutes on transit are often quite nice. You can read a book, watch a show, look at the scenery, etc. without worrying about driving. Long car commutes, however, are universally awful and draining.

St. Louis needs to stop saying, "No, that won't or can't happen," and start asking, "Why not St. Louis," and make it happen.

There is NO reason any of us should have to thrive in a fast-paced environment or work well under pressure. Most of our daily work is not an emergency, and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy, just to make more profit for the C-suite, is burning people out.

I keep waiting for things to get really hedonistic and fun since everything sucks. instead it appears that Americans are going to spend the fall of our empire scrolling on their phones watching short form content or arguing about delivery apps

I am here once again begging MoDOT to invest in better high visibility road paint that’s, ya know, visible when it rains at night.