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18 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"we want a european sized welfare state and complete decarbonization but we're also ruling out consumption and higher energy taxes forever"
i mean i get the politics — democrats will always give you more welfare state and more climate policy than republicans and middle class or consumption taxes will give you fewer democrats — but, like, yeesh
sure, the policy consensus is some mix of regulation and subsidy and investment, but does anyone think the plans the white house has proposed (let alone what will actually get passed) is sufficient on that front? newstatesman.com/world/north-am… ImageImage
lol how many times have i tweeted or written some version of this, why do you guys follow me, i have no original material
"big welfare states tend to have big taxes from broad taxbases, basketball fun to watch, movies from the 1970s good, movies today bad, franzen good, blah blah blah"

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5 May
doing lots of abstraction here but i think lots of americans look to european parental leave and childcare arrangements and think that would fit their personal and ambitious professional goals better but the european model is also based around everyone just working less
i wrote this piece in 2013 so full warning, but there's interesting research showing that american women in the workforce are more likely to be managers than european women in part because so many european women work part time theatlantic.com/business/archi… Image
so for American women if you Work Like A Man (i.e. no kids or no kid-related career disruption) you can reach the commanding heights, while many European women are in a comfortable but professionally stagnant middle ground between work and non-work
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27 Apr
it's totally good and fine to update and gender/race swap classics, but it would also be cool if more movies did what happens in theater where you just have a woman or a black guy (or, as i saw last year, a black woman) just play hamlet-as-hamlet and don't really comment on it
and it's not like this doesn't happen in movies, but recently it seems to mostly involve dev patel and english classics ImageImage
which makes sense, so much UK cinema is shakespeare, jane austen etc that it becomes a matter of simple fairness if only white people can be cast in them
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20 Mar
I think one thing people don’t appreciate is that there’s an entire institution of conservatish history that’s an autobot vs decepticon battle between good and bad intellectuals over literally thousands of years, which is how you get undead Rousseau personally doing the Terror
foxnews.com/media/charlie-…
A more rigorous subset of this mode of thinking is a kind of Woodrow Wilson demonology, where all bad things about America flow from him
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18 Feb
has anyone said gill's reddit username
zeldin said "deep you know what value"
now he's talking about tiktok's data sharing with the CCP
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16 Feb
the responses to this shows how hard real criminal justice reform is, people get mad when someone they don't like is able to do a diversion program, which are good things that keep people out of jail and reduce the stigma of having a criminal conviction
this reminds me of the controversy over the sex offender who was included in the poetry magazine issue with writing from incarcerated people. many people are in the criminal justice system because they did deeply immoral things as opposed to being the victim of circumstances
also imagine if we threw everyone in jail who was determined to have filed a false police report...
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8 Feb
reading this all i could think is how the amount of knowledge we've accumulated about macroeconomics is really quite low and hardly seems to be moving towards "accumulating more knowledge over time" as opposed to relearning stuff paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stagflation-…
also "the law of diminishing disciples" is an amazing line. people have lots of thoughts about paul krugman but he's so good at writing about economics per se paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stagflation-…
(obviously a controversial guy but larry summers is a good example of someone who tries to say interesting, novel, not-pure-math-y things about "the economy" for better or worse)
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