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It’s wearable Bauhaus styled with Puma shoes, a theory of mute as loud, the softening of iPhone face via sweet off-the-shoulder tops and male midriff: you are aware of enshittification but you don’t let it wear you.

You will always be closer to being homeless than you are to being a billionaire, and your allegiances should be allocated accordingly.

You are one illness away from having *nothing*.

Workers aren’t given incentives to be more productive, and they aren’t being monitored by their productivity. “We have a really humanitarian concept here,” Schwartz tells me. “If you become really good at something, then we’re going to give you a better job position, a better machine; that is important to us. People want to strive to move up.

“We have a tendency to have the river visit us every so often,” Schwartz says.

China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. The work China does on cutting emissions at home—ever cheaper renewables, more abundant storage which makes... See more

While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles.

To study the causal effect of rising housing costs on fertility, I vary them directly within the model, finding that rising costs since 1990 are responsible for 11% fewer children, 51% of the total fertility rate decline between the 2000s and 2010s, and 7 percentage points fewer young families in the 2010s. Policy counterfactuals indicate that a... See more