How People Get Rich Now: http://paulgraham.com/richnow.html
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this was great, and a riff on one of my favorite themes. a book i would read is something like "This Is Normal: Why Everything You Think Is Strange Now Is Actually a Return to Normal After the Incredibly Weird 20th Century"
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It doesn’t help that most Americans’ worldview doesn’t extend further than WWII, for the most part. Insofar as accessible symbols, signs, examples, and political movements usable in discourse go. The exceptional period is the cultural baseline, to much confusion.
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E.g. all this blabbering, pearl-clutching drama around Substack, a concept that would have been instantly understood by Ben Franklin, by scribblers with some ad-supported Woodward/Bernstein hero narrative stuck in their heads.
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