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Among the major social media apps, Twitter (& by extension Bluesky) has the highest average income.
The people making this claim are downwardly mobile college grads complaining about the price of Veblen goods. Most people below the poverty line don't share this apocalyptic view of the economy.
The people making this claim are downwardly mobile college grads complaining about the price of Veblen goods. Most people below the poverty line don't share this apocalyptic view of the economy.
What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Among the major social media apps, Twitter (& by extension Bluesky) has the highest average income.
The people making this claim are downwardly mobile college grads complaining about the price of Veblen goods. Most people below the poverty line don't share this apocalyptic view of the economy.
The people making this claim are downwardly mobile college grads complaining about the price of Veblen goods. Most people below the poverty line don't share this apocalyptic view of the economy.
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i feel like the most underrated difference between policymakers and pundits and the general public is that the former are *very strongly* utilitarian and normies are not... i think some polling on that would be interesting
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
i feel like the most underrated difference between policymakers and pundits and the general public is that the former are *very strongly* utilitarian and normies are not... i think some polling on that would be interesting
Raising the minimum wage and negotiating prescription drug prices is far more left-populist coded than canceling student debt or EV subsidies.
Take it from me, a free market guy who hates both of those policies!
Take it from me, a free market guy who hates both of those policies!
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Raising the minimum wage and negotiating prescription drug prices is far more left-populist coded than canceling student debt or EV subsidies.
Take it from me, a free market guy who hates both of those policies!
Take it from me, a free market guy who hates both of those policies!
The replies to this are another example of the innumeracy of the left. You would think getting majority of college ed voters would confer a decisive epistemic advantage but nope!
Public policy & econ are specialized fields that only a very small number of people are qualified to talk about.
Public policy & econ are specialized fields that only a very small number of people are qualified to talk about.
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The replies to this are another example of the innumeracy of the left. You would think getting majority of college ed voters would confer a decisive epistemic advantage but nope!
Public policy & econ are specialized fields that only a very small number of people are qualified to talk about.
Public policy & econ are specialized fields that only a very small number of people are qualified to talk about.
The quoted OP is silly but I think the underlying sentiment is that college educated Rs living in lib social milieux don't like that they have to lie about their beliefs constantly. It's not necessarily about one set of beliefs trumping the other.
the wild thing about this is that they don’t even want to convert liberal elites to conservatism
they want liberal elites to simultaneously continue to hold their existing views and to admit that conservatives are correct, smarter than they are and worthy of more respect
they want liberal elites to simultaneously continue to hold their existing views and to admit that conservatives are correct, smarter than they are and worthy of more respect
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The quoted OP is silly but I think the underlying sentiment is that college educated Rs living in lib social milieux don't like that they have to lie about their beliefs constantly. It's not necessarily about one set of beliefs trumping the other.
It's interesting how for both sides the (fascist/Marxist) LARPers on the other side are a viable threat but the (Marxist/fascist) LARPers on the same side are obviously a joke.
Meanwhile normies are like "ah, another shooting by a lunatic. Terrible. Anyway,"
Meanwhile normies are like "ah, another shooting by a lunatic. Terrible. Anyway,"
don't have a lot of respect for the median voter but I suspect this will be their reaction to anyone saying the death of charlie kirk means we need to ban the ACLU or whatever
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's interesting how for both sides the (fascist/Marxist) LARPers on the other side are a viable threat but the (Marxist/fascist) LARPers on the same side are obviously a joke.
Meanwhile normies are like "ah, another shooting by a lunatic. Terrible. Anyway,"
Meanwhile normies are like "ah, another shooting by a lunatic. Terrible. Anyway,"
Klein/Thompson faced a nuclear level backlash from the lefty think-tank world for their incredibly mild book.
Abundance becoming a centrist movement was inevitable. The left hated Abundance from the jump lol. And much of the lefty think tank world hates YIMBY too (though this is v slowly changing)
Abundance becoming a centrist movement was inevitable. The left hated Abundance from the jump lol. And much of the lefty think tank world hates YIMBY too (though this is v slowly changing)
abundance is a think tank/vibe thing right now, and it specifically seems to have done its best to make yimby large, corporate, and less-left-wing, basically. the vibe is not good, imho
September 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Klein/Thompson faced a nuclear level backlash from the lefty think-tank world for their incredibly mild book.
Abundance becoming a centrist movement was inevitable. The left hated Abundance from the jump lol. And much of the lefty think tank world hates YIMBY too (though this is v slowly changing)
Abundance becoming a centrist movement was inevitable. The left hated Abundance from the jump lol. And much of the lefty think tank world hates YIMBY too (though this is v slowly changing)
The reason all these GOP wonks got invited is that there are very good housing & permitting bills making their way through Congress that need the imprimatur of bipartisanship to pass.
As long as cloture requires 60 votes getting the other side's apparatchiks on board is unavoidable
As long as cloture requires 60 votes getting the other side's apparatchiks on board is unavoidable
Why I can't take the Abundance crowd seriously is really exemplified by the conference they're throwing for themselves, where the speakers include Josh Barro, Oren Cass, the Ham and Cheese guy, Nate Hochman's brother, the head of the Manhattan Institute, Reihan Salam and David Shor
Speakers — Abundance 2025
www.abundancedc.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The reason all these GOP wonks got invited is that there are very good housing & permitting bills making their way through Congress that need the imprimatur of bipartisanship to pass.
As long as cloture requires 60 votes getting the other side's apparatchiks on board is unavoidable
As long as cloture requires 60 votes getting the other side's apparatchiks on board is unavoidable