Meghan Twombly

trust is an economic asset.

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30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?

What traveling across America revealed about trust and work in the age of AI

kyla scanlon

Nov 13

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Peter Thiel recently did an interview with the Free Press about his 2020 email to Mark Zuckerberg. The title of the piece is “Capitali... See more

communities deliberately shifted focus from the existential debate between nationalists and unionists to local projects where compromise was possible. It was maintenance. Working together on visible problems created space for former enemies to reconcile themselves to living as neighbors.

Support for unions among college graduates sits at 70%. The professional managerial class - supposedly individualistic, supposedly above such concerns - is converging with the working class on populist economic views. Tax the rich. Regulate big business. Protect workers from being replaced by algorithms or outsourced to cheaper labor markets.

Trust compounds.

The affordability crisis compounds - without affordable homes, young families don’t form. Without young families, the tax base ages. Without young taxpayers, resources shrink. The system eats itself.