5LL #240 - Evictions, Cancer, Data, Fashion, Basketball

Renters Are Being Exploited and Evictions Must Be Stopped
Sally Rooney, The Irish Times
The nice thing about being a landlord in Ireland today, as the late Margaret Thatcher might observe, is that you never seem to run out of other people’s money.
After the War on Cancer
Libby Watson, The Baffler
Awareness campaigns have made cancer more treatable—but not more affordable.
Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare
Brishen Rogers, Boston Review
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
You Can’t Even Tell Who’s Rich Anymore
Kate Wagner, The Nation
Billionaires dress like the guy next door, which elides the fact of our ever-worsening inequality.
NBA Players Wanted Their Rights as Workers. Owners Were Standing in the Way.
Joshua Mendelsohn and MIchael Arria, Jacobin
NBA players are well-paid today, but it wasn’t always so. As a new labor history of the league shows, pro basketball players had to unionize and threaten strikes to get out from under the thumb of owners and win a bigger piece of the financial pie.
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