IMO the way to square the circle of “the economy is actually really good by so many metrics and America really is a rich country” and “the American economy has deep structural issues which people are lashing out against” is to focus less on affordability and more on opportunity and mobility

grok BETRAYS its master

Funny for this discussion to be happening right after I watched Barry Lyndon, which is a movie about how revenge/honor killings and dueling are good actually.

Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

not only are these people foolish and cruel, they are blatantly misreading my favorite books.

literally the go woke or go broke coalition