It’s a thing! www.laws-of-software.com/laws/zawinski/

Reaction was the beating heart of a lot of OG "punk" stuff and why so many of the punk rock boomers went MAGA as soon as they were old enough to feel nostalgia

Statistics 101: medians are great way to hide distributions.

Your chart also very nicely leads into the whole “wages have not kept up with productivity” thing progressives like to talk about.

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

I’m only buying pre-2023 stuff at this point it’s so bad out there

All because car companies wanted to skirt CAPE regulations by selling light truck frames to the public. Worse still the public has eaten it up; women buy up SUV’s and men buy up pickup trucks and society is all the worse for it!

As a leftist I fundamentally believe in systemic solutions; decarbonization != deindustrialization. France uses about 4T due to nuclear power and functional public transportation. Also, I really doubt anyone could get a critical mass of Americans to follow along with such plans as you propose

The whole “Carbon footprint” concept is a marketing term from none other than BP, an oil company. And while the global north does use much more resources than the global south, the far more damning metric is resource use vs net worth. Can you guess who’s using a disproportionate amount of resources?

The answer is “a lot of money” and the people who have such things have zero incentive to invest in climate relief or resilience measures for the poor masses.

Best to just hunker down, love your friends and family, and live the best life you can until the hammer drops on us all IMHO.

Meanwhile all the deindustrialization and primitivism folk be like…

Right next to that op-ed? “Not all men…” presented to by Ezra Klein and other center-libs who’ve completely lost the plot

The average Joe shouldn’t need to adopt security culture just to exist in the basic world…