{"id":44336,"date":"2012-03-09T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/another-factor-is-job-insecurity-what-economists\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:27:15","slug":"another-factor-is-job-insecurity-what-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/another-factor-is-job-insecurity-what-economists\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Another factor is job insecurity, what economists like to call \u201cflexibility in the labour markets,\u201d which is a good thing under the reigning academic theology, but a pretty rotten thing for human beings, whose fate doesn\u2019t enter into the calculations of sober thinking. Flexibility means you better work extra hours or else. There are no contracts and no rights. That\u2019s flexibility. We\u2019ve got to get rid of market rigidities. Economists can explain it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another factor is job insecurity, what economists like to call \u201cflexibility in the labour markets,\u201d which is a good thing under the reigning academic theology, but a pretty rotten thing for human beings, whose fate doesn\u2019t enter into the calculations of sober thinking. Flexibility means you better work extra hours or else. There are no &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/another-factor-is-job-insecurity-what-economists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[417,478,531],"class_list":["post-44336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chomsky","tag-economics","tag-labor-market","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}