Sunday, August 4, 2019 The New York Times Magazine ‘We’re Lab Rats’: A Baseball League Where Stealing First Is O.K.   The Atlantic League has become an M.L.B. testing ground for ideas that could make the game livelier, including larger bases and an automated strike zone.

Sunday, August 4, 2019   ‘We’re Lab Rats’: An Economic System Where Stealing People's Labor Is O.K. Capitalism is an economic system where you work 8 hours and get paid for 4. Where does the other 4 go? It filters up to the one percenters as cash. After this racket has been running for a while, the top has so much money they can pay $20 million for a painting while the bottom picks dumpsters to eat. The system has laws against stealing cash, but stealing labor is what keeps the system going.