Mailbag: Condescending to the wine moms
Nik Gupta
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I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a gre... See more
1d
I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a gre... See more
Mailbag: Condescending to the wine moms
Matt S
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Edited
Yeah, on the NIMBY point, a book I'm reading pointed out that the American dream has sort of morphed into "buy a house in the town you grew up in, and live there peacefully until you die, without the neighborhood ever changing." That's the European dream, not the American dream.
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Edited
Yeah, on the NIMBY point, a book I'm reading pointed out that the American dream has sort of morphed into "buy a house in the town you grew up in, and live there peacefully until you die, without the neighborhood ever changing." That's the European dream, not the American dream.