the main thing you should take from this thread is not whatever object level conclusion he suggests by the end (havent read that far) but rather the meta lesson that if faced with a question requiring sensitive longitudinal macro data to answer correctly you should simply give uphttps://twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1230505649794166785 …
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If you have a non-standard meaning for “if the aggregate is better off,” then sure. If you mean some subset of people, that’s fine, just say so. But even then I would argue all reasonable subsets (working class etc) in the US are meaningfully “better off” today than in 1990.
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dont worry youll get to agnosticism on these matters soon
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