Stated preference: we’re too atomized, loneliness epidemic, more community, close-knit family ties, bring back churches, civil society! Revealed preference: we want privacy, autonomy, more room, internet/smartphones, more time alone, fewer social constraints, UberEats, Netflix.
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Replying to @nabeelqu
seems more like our long-term preferences being short-circuited by our immediate impulses (and tech profiting from it)
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Replying to @krrishd
What's your evidence for this? Everybody starts out living on top of each other & then as they get richer move apart and "buy" more autonomy, so I don't understand the framing of long-term/short-term here.
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some evidence: - consumer preferences are learned—there were race, class, policy, and business factors that promoted suburban exodus in the usa - afaict a lot of wealthy people are also buying the opportunity to live close together as well (esp in charismatic tier 1 cities)
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