So what you have *actually* discovered is that an American family working at minimum wage is *meaningfully better off* in terms of access to real resources than someone on the lower runs of Victorian Britain's educated *urban middle class.*

Quite the opposite of the intended implication!

Anyway, affordability is a problem (build more houses) and we need to bring down costs (build more houses) but I don't think that effort (building more houses) is aided by deceptive comparisons that imply no real increase in living standards since 1843, a thing which is obviously, laughably untrue.

Like we don't think of Carrie Fisher as a nepo baby even though she clearly was, because she was great but also because, eg, Harrison Ford was previously a carpenter and weed dealer, not also a film star's kid. We don't want a world with no Carrie Fishers, but we've got one with no new Fords.

311. Return of the Jedi is the most successful realization of Lucas’s conception of Star Wars as a Flash Gordon style film serial, in the way it jumps from the Jabba’s Palace adventure to the completely different but tangentially connected Battle of Endor.

Man I just read Children of the Jedi recently & I'm still losing it over Han Solo's old smuggling buddy Drub McKumb

13. It’s perfectly fine that there are a bunch of secret Jedi banging around after the Purge. Even if there were a thousand of them, the Galaxy is huge. Lucas even suggested 1,000 scattered Jedi survived in one of his earliest drafts.

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