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Why are millennial men so well-adjusted compared to guys older and younger than us?

I credit the beneficial impact of the 1997 video game, Goldeneye 007.
We had good video games but bad internet — you had to go over to your friend’s house to play, so for a brief shining window digital technology complemented IRL hanging out rather than substituting for it.
People with XY chromosomes are incapable of meeting up just to talk without some pretextual activity and non-networked video games — which had $0 marginal cost once you owned it — were the greatest pretext ever invented.
Admiral Adama tried to warn us.

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I talked to some young people yesterday who were surprised Arnie Duncan endorsed Vallas — it's certainly noteworthy but not *surprising* they aren't just aligned on education policy issues, Duncan was a key Vallas lieutenant (and his successor) at Chicago Public Schools. Image
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Brandon Johnson is from the now-ascendant anti-charter faction.

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But I think there was an obvious policy recalibration to make instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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Banning assault weapons remains slightly above water (though not relative to the rural-skewed senate map) but support for this idea has been generally falling over time and it's become dramatically less popular since the 1990s.

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Mar 27
Americans back in the “good old days” were poor; their houses were 25% smaller, they mostly didn’t have dishwashers, and they had fewer cars than contemporary Europeans — nostalgia economics is totally wrong.

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In 1950, running water was about as common as dishwashers were by 2010.

A laundry machine was a rare luxury.

The situation wasn’t that people could afford to get by on one income, it was challenging to get by without a full-time homemaker.

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College tuition was cheaper in large part because it’s much easier to generously subsidize higher education if many fewer people are actually enrolling.

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Mar 22
By the same token, the people who oppose legalizing windowless apartments aren't the ones sleeping in tents or homeless shelters as a result of housing scarcity.
The policy argument for legalizing windowless bedrooms is that doing so makes it much easier to do office-to-residential conversions of urban downtowns — something that I believe is broadly in the public interest regardless of your particular situation.

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This is hurting cities' tax bases and also driving up homelessness.

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Vertical farming doesn’t work because the energy requirements are too high, but if it did work — if we had much more abundant sources of energy — that would solve a million other environmental problems.

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That’s why it’s Exhibit A for the view that unlocking abundant energy is underrated — policy changes that might get us there are typically opposed for environmental reasons, but you could solve tons of environmental problems if you had more energy.

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On nuclear, it makes safety regulations that use a comprehensive cost-benefit framework and consider the upside of having more zero-emissions heat & electricity and not just the risks.

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Thanks to huge technological advantages the market for news is now much more competitive, much more efficient, and much better-measured so people get more of what they want — which turns out to be relentless negativity.

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