3. TIL that the average workweek for a manufacturing employee in the 1890s was 100 ...

TIL that the average workweek for a manufacturing employee in the 1890s was 100 hours. The five day, 40-hour workweek didn't become standard until 1940 thanks to the passing of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to anyone working more than 40 hours.

Barrier to entry? How did the recent battle for net neutrality backed by republicans help the fight against monopolistic ISPs?

Health care? I pay $150 a month for my health insurance through work. Socialized medicine would be of the same quality and I’d be paying what, $60/month in additional taxes instead of nearly three times that with a private insurer? Who keeps blocking that move?

I don’t want a government to be larger than it has to, but your monthly tinfoil expenses have to be massive if you think the dems are allowing monopolies to expand. An argument could be made about the existing party line members, but fuck man universal higher education and socialized medicine alone would do more to damage large corporations than deregulation ever could.

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