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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15443

* The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-week-america

* AI can't replace polling https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-polling-not-in-a

* Day One of the Google Monopoly Trial: "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/day-one-of-the-google-monopoly-trial

* I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8Oxe6OxJc (h/t Naked Capitalism)

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Day One of the Google Monopoly Trial: "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

It's the opening, as the government and Google duel on the law and the facts. There are two witness. DOJ and Google engage on divestiture, and Google’s behavioral remedy proposals start to dissolve.

AI can't replace polling

The use of AI models to mimic human respondents betrays the public, and provides inaccurate answers to key questions

The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy

Fights over power are bitter because the right has an ancient vision of liberty, and the left has not joined the debate. Plus a new Google trial, a bailout of Argentina and a big change in H-1b visas.
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Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students

Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences -- key determinants of support for redistributive policies. We investigate these preferences in an incentivized lab experiment with a group of future elites -- Ivy League MBA students. We find that MBA students implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, regardless of whether inequality stems from luck or merit. Their redistributive choices are also highly responsive to efficiency costs, with an effect that is an order of magnitude larger than that found in representative U.S. samples. Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population. These findings provide novel insights into how elites' redistributive preferences may shape high levels of inequality in the U.S.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine: What unions could (must!) do about app-based work.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115265645391713003

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15443

* The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-week-america

* AI can't replace polling https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-polling-not-in-a

* Day One of the Google Monopoly Trial: "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/day-one-of-the-google-monopoly-trial

* I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8Oxe6OxJc (h/t Naked Capitalism)

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Day One of the Google Monopoly Trial: "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

It's the opening, as the government and Google duel on the law and the facts. There are two witness. DOJ and Google engage on divestiture, and Google’s behavioral remedy proposals start to dissolve.

AI can't replace polling

The use of AI models to mimic human respondents betrays the public, and provides inaccurate answers to key questions

The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy

Fights over power are bitter because the right has an ancient vision of liberty, and the left has not joined the debate. Plus a new Google trial, a bailout of Argentina and a big change in H-1b visas.
arXiv.org

Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students

Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences -- key determinants of support for redistributive policies. We investigate these preferences in an incentivized lab experiment with a group of future elites -- Ivy League MBA students. We find that MBA students implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, regardless of whether inequality stems from luck or merit. Their redistributive choices are also highly responsive to efficiency costs, with an effect that is an order of magnitude larger than that found in representative U.S. samples. Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population. These findings provide novel insights into how elites' redistributive preferences may shape high levels of inequality in the U.S.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#20yrsago Warner Music CEO: Price-fixing is for iTunes, too https://web.archive.org/web/20050926232101/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004001.php

#20yrsago Kate Wilhelm’s must-read writerly advice/history of Clarion https://memex.craphound.com/2005/09/25/kate-wilhelms-must-read-writerly-advice-history-of-clarion/

#10yrsago Not just emissions: manufacturers’ dirty tricks fake everything about cars https://web.archive.org/web/20180913103847/https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/09/26/a-mucky-business

#10yrsago Collapse in filial piety, poor social net produces cohort of elderly Korean prostitutes https://web.archive.org/web/20150927232808/https://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_28876273/elderly-prostitutes-reveal-dark-side-south-koreas-rise

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Kate Wilhelm’s must-read writerly advice/history of Clarion

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#10yrsago FTC clobbers Roca Labs, the terrible weight-loss company that banned negative reviews https://web.archive.org/web/20220622001541/https://www.popehat.com/2015/09/24/roca-labs-weight-loss-company-that-sues-its-critics-sued-by-ftc-over-deceptive-advertising-and-dont-criticize-us-gag-clause/24

#10yrsago What the Internet looks like when it’s not a patent drawing https://www.wired.com/2015/09/internet-looks-like-irl/

#10yrsago The other ad-blocking ecosystem: blame-ducking https://medium.com/message/how-we-pass-the-buck-d63fcf409247

#10yrsago Appeals court rules Batmobile is a “character” and is copyrighted by DC https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/pow-appeals-court-assigns-copyright-to-the-batmobile/

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Ars Technica

Pow! Appeals court assigns copyright to the Batmobile

“The Batmobile always contains the most up-to-date weaponry and technology.”…
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How we pass the buck

Ads, blocking, and how we make sure it’s never actually our fault.
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