New and Old #260

Blue-collar culture, the many housing crises, e-commerce deception, and is it the phones?

Low-wage work isn’t a job. It’s a whole world with its own logic and norms, Positive Sum, Abi Olvera, March 9, 2026

This is interesting, and I suspect, as Olvera argues, that most elite-types don’t really grok this:

This is how low-wage work actually functions. Workers stack income sources. They optimize each one (e.g. hours, tips, scheduling flexibility) and fill …