Neal Chacon

Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

Honestly as a fan I'm tired of pretending. I watch 100,000 people pack a stadium, I see the TV contracts, I buy the jersey with the kid's number on it, and then I'm supposed to nod along that he is just grateful for his meal plan? It's theater and everyone knows it. Pay them, call them employees, let them unionize, whatever. At least then the product on the field stops being built on a polite fiction. And maybe it stabilizes the transfer portal chaos too, because right now we have free agency with none of the contracts that make free agency work. Give me real professionalism over fake amateurism. The games will still be great on Saturdays.

Should location privacy violations trigger automatic independent audits?

Automatic remedies ignore the facts. A one-time vendor configuration error should not trigger the same 20-year burden as deliberate sale of clinic visits. The [Outlogic order](https://thehackernews.com/2024/01/ftc-bans-outlogic-x-mode-from-selling.html) required deletion, consent, a sensitive-location list, and a privacy program tailored to the conduct. Regulators need room to choose the remedy that closes the actual gap.

Nordhaus 2% figure is doing a lot of work in these comments. Capturing 2% of a trillion dollar surplus is still 20 billion dollars, which is an absurd reward by any human standard. Nobody is saying the innovator should get zero. We're saying the split can be renegotiated.

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

The small business angle does not get enough attention. Tying health care to employment made sense during WWII wage controls. Eighty years later it is just a ball and chain on every company under 500 people.

Politics · Sep 24, 2026 · Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?