Shadow work is any work we do that we aren't directly compensated for. What its critics miss is that this shadow work is one of the effects of inflation, along with the government's ongoing effort to prop up the cost of labor with regulations and the minimum wage.
While pop and rock hits were attracting pirates, the same methods were available to aficionados of opera, classical, jazz, and show music.
The imposition of new taxes shifts wages and prices in ways that are impossible to predict beforehand and difficult to measure even after the fact.
While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?
They keep trying and trying with ever-worse results. There is no middle way to solve the housing crisis. The real help for underwater homeowners will only arrive when Fannie, Freddie, and the rest are allowed to fail.
Many have misdirected their anger toward illegal immigrants or the businesses that hire them. Their outrage should be aimed at the state.
What if, instead of Marxist or quasi-Marxist paradigms, literary critics adopted the theories of free-market economics?
The elimination of the state will not lead to lawless chaos. Not only will market law be more efficient; it will also be more equitable than the government alternative.
