Externalities, More Than

In the series The FUTURE of WORK

"Dollars in the Margins"

[intro blurb - a quotation from the article]

The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them. A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.

By MATTHEW DESMOND

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/minimum-wage-saving-lives.html

And so for day 2412
21.07.2013

Reporting

Metafiction impells verification.

Fiction that incorporates truth value testing is like running an experiment.

Such writing plays with the sometimes subtle difference between supposition and description.

Ascriptions that are particular:

The cat on the mat.

"The cat on the mat" he said.

To get at the truth of the statement the passage is through the teller.

And so for day 95
19.03.2007