The financial news mag and website Bloomberg published a column Nov. 28 written by Justin Fox with the following headline: “Why Are Blue-Collar Americans Dying of Despair?”When I noticed “disappearing low-wage jobs” and “opioid epidemic” in the subhead, I already knew what to expect — a lot of wasted words with a few real facts thrown into the mix just to pretend that the story had any real substantive value.Then I saw that the story contained an interview with two economists from the world of academia, and I knew the fix was really in because the story wasn’t going to ...