{"id":119,"date":"2010-02-27T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/02\/27\/marginal-devolution\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:07:08","slug":"marginal-devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/02\/27\/marginal-devolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Devolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1752\">Armed and Dangerous \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Marginal Devolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve spent the last seventy years increasing the hidden overhead and<br \/>\ndownside risks associated with hiring a worker &#8212; which meant the<br \/>\nminimum revenue-per-employee threshold below which hiring doesn&#8217;t make<br \/>\nsense has crept up and up and up, gradually. This effect was partly<br \/>\nmasked by credit and asset bubbles, but those have now popped.<br \/>\nIncreasingly it&#8217;s not just the classic hard-core unemployables<br \/>\n(alcoholics, criminal deviants, crazies) that can&#8217;t pull enough weight<br \/>\nto justify a paycheck; it&#8217;s the marginal ones, the mediocre, and the<br \/>\nmildly dysfunctional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the comment section:<\/p>\n<p><cite>Jessica Boxer<\/cite> Says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I propose Boxer\u2019s law of economics: \u201cThe economy interprets taxation and regulation as damage and routes around it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d6bbabf8-7d7f-88b9-887a-e1f61369c706\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed and Dangerous \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Marginal Devolution Eric S. Raymond writes: We&#8217;ve spent the last seventy years increasing the hidden overhead and downside risks associated with hiring a worker &#8212; which meant the minimum revenue-per-employee threshold below which hiring doesn&#8217;t make sense has crept up and up and up, gradually. This effect was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}