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Bloomberg: Art Museums Are Not For the Poor

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  Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in what seems to be an effort to hurt NYC’s poor as much as possible before leaving office at the end of the year, has granted New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art the right to charge a fee. Previously, the museum entrance fee was on a suggested donation bases if $25 (but you could enter …

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Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia (with Peter Frase)

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  Jacobin contributing Editor and writer Peter Frase, explains the politics of “tech bros” in Silicon Valley, what the BART strike showed us about the ugly side of tech politics, what flexibility really means, why labor unions support innovation, Denmark’s distinct approach to flexible labor markets and why technology plutocrats are a lot like other plutocrats. This clip from the …