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Maybe that was part of the problem for me: all that trying in the trying forums. The desperation radiated off their questions (“My joints hurt, could that be a sign?”). So far, in my life, effortlessness held far greater appeal—in dressing, in poise, in making a baby. To appear effortless meant to never outwardly cop to a condition of lack. And yet

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But this isn’t really a story about the consequences of raising too much venture capital, or even about branding. It’s mostly a story about a not-great business that never figured itself out — where customers spent too little and didn’t come back enough.

Until the late nineteenth century, when kids were still making vital contributions to the family economy, they didn’t have toys as we know them. They played with found and household objects (sticks, pots, brooms). In his book Children at Play, the scholar Howard Chudacoff writes, “Some historians even maintain that before the modern era, the most c... See more

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“Medicare for all” is a version of a single-payer healthcare system. Instead of having a private insurer pay for your healthcare, the government would be the only (single) entity paying for healthcare (hence the name single-payer). This doesn’t necessarily mean that there wouldn’t be private insurance — people can choose to get private insurance fo... See more