Rob Larson

Oct 7, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Rob Larson |Nathan J. Robinson

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 July/Aug Details Migrant caravans vs. passports for the rich. Open borders are less threatening when the world’s citizens have at least rough economic equality. The movement of people across borders has endured as a divisive political issue in rich nations. First, there’s the West’s xenophobia and paranoid fear of migrant violence, whether it be of Salvadoran MS-13 gang members or Islamic State sleeper cells.

Aug 29, 2024 | lithub.com | Rob Larson

Broadly, an observer of the economy can make out a number of social and economic levels, based not only on how much money people have but how they make their living. This book has so far covered the economics of the richest households, whose members may work, and often earn gigantic CEO incomes from managing large corporate entities.

Aug 23, 2024 | znetwork.org | Rob Larson

For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared by innocent, hard-working professors. But now all this has been called into question, as this month Google was formally adjudicated to have been running a monopoly in search. What does that mean? Doesn’t Google have competitors, after all?

Aug 23, 2024 | jacobin.com | Rob Larson

For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared by innocent, hard-working professors. But now all this has been called into question, as this month Google was formally adjudicated to have been running a monopoly in search. What does that mean? Doesn’t Google have competitors, after all?

Aug 22, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Rob Larson

Defenders of ruling elites have seldom been satisfied with the argument that the rich deserve their wealth because of their grudging willingness to provide jobs for everyone else. Very commonly, the tendency is to celebrate the rich and powerful as being different kinds of people from the rest of us—suggesting that they built their gigantic companies up from scratch by their own almost miraculously superior knowledge, relentless drive, and willingness to make tough calls.