Zeke B. 2024 | BASIS Independent Brooklyn
- Project Title: The Value of Work After Moneyball
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Mr. Zachary Wekilsky
- Internship Location: Kadima Careers
- Onsite Mentor: Alan Stein
Professional baseball players are compensated extremely well for their physical labor. The professional baseball player, and the low-wage laborer both provide physical labor, but what makes the difference in salary compensation is the freedoms offered to the baseball player via the capital he yields. Since the “Moneyball” revolution, player evaluation has been defined by investments in technology that can track and establish new deliverables. For my senior project, I am evaluating the history of compensation in professional baseball, and how technology has affected compensation. I will use this to connect to low-wage labor in the US, and what changes technology can bring, as it becomes cheaper to implement in the workplace. I have been researching my senior project through online journals, and old articles detailing historical events that apply to my project. At my on-site, I have been working with Kadima Careers, and its founder Alan Stein, a specialist job coach who works with career acceleration. For Kadima Careers, I have been busy compiling a report on the top MBA programs in the US. I have been aggregating ranking and ROI data for top graduate business schools, sharpening my spreadsheet skills. Ultimately, I hope to assuage some of the fears of AI implementation in the workplace, showing an alternative to the commonly presented AI dystopia. I also want to add to the preexisting understanding of professional baseball and its intersection with the low-wage labor market in America.