Please listen to Tupac in addition to vibing out to this 👆🏽
If the WSJ Opinion column is critical of this move then you KNOW it has bi-partisan lack-of-support … but …
… even if a leadership change at the Bureau of Labor Statistics seems politically charged, it might offer three potential benefits:
First, fresh leadership might modernize how employment data is collected and shared.
e.g. BLS might partner with major payroll platforms to access real-time payroll data from the data exhaust of private companies. Would we feel better if they created a new government agency: USAIDB
U.S. Agency of Industrial Byproduct (USAIB)
Do you have the skills to help make that happen? 👆🏽
If you do, then start working on it NOW. Startups take a long time to manifest so by the time your product is ready you might be ready to exit when your preferred candidate is in office.
… this in turn …
might provide more up-to-date employment insights compared to traditional surveys, reducing lag time and improving accuracy.
Second, aligning BLS leadership with the administration’s goals might streamline decision-making.
I hope someday we might agree that bad actors exist in all power structures irrespective of p-artisanal-politik-ing.
And then it might follow that said bad actors might outnumber the "less bad" bad actors when the former's Chief Bad Actor-in-charge is at the helm - by definition.
Back to 107.5 the BLS …
Making a change in this case might lead to more progressive metrics that better match the needs of today.
I said might.
And I don't mean that as a hedge. It's a fact. None of us know.
The better question to ask is …
… what kind of person are you?
Are you a won't person?
, or
... are you
a might person?
I aspire to be a might person; in deference to a future I can't predict.
If you are a won't person 😰 then hopefully you will win .. at least sometimes.
Now think of the payoff diagram in the above scenario. It mathematically pays off to be a might person.
My fuzzy maths aside, the REAL question is what are YOU doing?
Whether it is 🆙 or ⏬
hopefully you …
… DO …
what you
say
think and
feel
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