Anya Alvarado

Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

My college head coach left for an NFL job in the middle of a recruiting cycle. No penalty that mattered, just a bigger check. But when my teammate wanted to transfer closer to his sick mother, he had to sit out an entire year. The portal fixed some of that, but the principle stands: coaches have always been free agents and players were property with homework. Now that players can finally move, everyone acts shocked that college football looks professional. It looks professional because it's professional. Paying salaries just admits what the transfer portal, the TV deals, and the coaching carousel already proved. You can't run a free labor market for coaches and a company store for players and call it amateurism with a straight face.

Should the federal government break up Big Tech companies?

Everyone frames this as a consumer issue, but ask the workers. In 2010 the Justice Department caught Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, and others in no-poach agreements that suppressed engineers' wages across Silicon Valley, and the companies eventually paid $415 million to settle. That is what concentrated power does when nobody is watching: it does not just raise prices, it holds down paychecks. Consumers get free search while the people building the products get a rigged labor market, and no individual engineer can bargain against a cartel of the world's richest companies. Breaking up concentrated employers restores the one thing workers cannot create for themselves: competing bidders for their labor. Antitrust was written for exactly this, and the workers deserve the protection as much as the shoppers. [DOJ](https://www.justice.gov/)

My grandfather fled a country that confiscated fortunes and I don't think half of you understand what that apparatus looks like up close. It's never just the billionaires. It never stops at the billionaires.

Politics · Oct 6, 2026 · Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Mandatory voting works in Australia because they pair it with Saturday elections and sausage sizzles. Just fining people without making voting easier first puts the burden backwards.

Politics · Oct 6, 2026 · Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

ER nurse, four twelves here. The five-day crowd has no idea what a real schedule debate looks like, and they are still the ones setting the default for everyone.

Business · Sep 23, 2026 · Should the standard full-time workweek be cut to four days with no pay cut?