Cheap-Labor Conservatives

I read Paul Krugman’s column on our future prosperity, and then found that Avedon had also read and commented on it along with some links to other commentors. One of the best I saw was about cheap-labor conservatives.

Work cheap or starve, a motto to live by.

These cheap-labor conservatives should read the mission statement for the United States sometime. It’s right there in the first paragraph of the Constitution –  after “We the People of the United States, in Order to”.

  • form a more perfect Union,
  • establish Justice,
  • insure domestic Tranquility,
  • provide for the common defence,
  • promote the general Welfare, and
  • secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

and ends “do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

About the only mission they seem to care for is to provide for the common defence, because there is money to be made there.

Cookie Monster

I hadn’t realized how insidious these trackers have become. This WSJ article discusses how cookies have grown since their Netscape days. There is also a link to a tool that tells you who has what installed on a domain site, about half way down the article.

Is there advertising on web pages? I should probably pay more attention and be less oblivious.