Big Cards Against Humanity announcement: See how our pay-what-you-want holiday packs did and how we spent the money.
I’m so proud of everything about this. Cards Against Humanity is the most fun project I’ve ever worked on.
I’ll come right out and say it: Taxes are awesome.
Yes, awesome. If you care about national values, or the relationship of citizens to their government, or the way we choose to award and discourage behavior, there is nowhere better to start than the gnarled and fascinating world of levies and tax breaks. Tax week gives American families a reason to consider moving to Bermunda, but it also gives me an excuse to spend the day finding my favorite, most controversial, and most illuminating graphs about taxes. Here they are. If you’ve think I’ve picked the wrong ones, or if you’ve got a better chart yourself, leave it in the comment section. I’m rounding up your favorite tax graphs tomorrow.
Just how big is Walmart? Really freaking big!
More charts here.
All that stuff you’ve been hearing about college grads falling behind, and student loans killing the middle class? Yeah, that shit’s for real.
one of the big memes of the past decade has been about the growing complexity of modern jobs and the urgent need for more educated workers. More recently, this has sometimes turned into a story about structural unemployment: the Great Recession is all about the fact that we have too many of one kind of worker (mostly semi-skilled high school grads) and too few of another (knowledge-savvy, symbol-manipulating college grads). So we need to upgrade our educational system to provide us with more of the latter. But if there were really an urgent need for a more educated workforce, surely the salaries of college grads would be going up? Instead, they’re going down. What exactly does this tell us about the demand for highly educated workers?
One of the main tenets of capitalism is that it allegedly creates competition, giving consumers higher quality and lower costs. But when competition drops from 37 national banks to 4, that “consumer wins out in the end” theory goes right out the window.
But don’t even think of regulating the banks!
I call BS! How is it that I’m in the “let’s go on a date” portion of this chart and never get messages?
Not pictured is the part where us fellows have to agonize over pithy introduction messages (which usually are ignored) while you ladies sort through your various suitors, scoffing at our ineptitude, our abortive attempts at chivalry and our clumsy, hesitant metahumor.
2010 Election Results
