Heather Mellquist Lehto, PhD
@mellquistlehto.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Technology and Society.
Formerly Harvard Divinity, University of Toronto, & Arizona State University.
Now I'm building conversations between scholarship and a greater public as CEO of @justdropin.bsky.social
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Formerly Harvard Divinity, University of Toronto, & Arizona State University.
Now I'm building conversations between scholarship and a greater public as CEO of @justdropin.bsky.social
JustDropIn.io
psst-- it's 1.8% (signed, a math undergrad major turned humanistic social scientist)
April 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
psst-- it's 1.8% (signed, a math undergrad major turned humanistic social scientist)
Reposted by Heather Mellquist Lehto, PhD
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.