Spencer Thomas
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Commentary, broadly construed. Author of Leaves and Circles. Ask me about it
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Read a preview of my speculative dystopian novel, Leaves and Circles, for
#WorldBookDay: http://bit.ly/leavescircles pic.twitter.com/w0EXoeEglk
1:13 PM - 3 Mar 2016 · Details17 retweets 67 likes
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Obama is forgiving the student debt of nearly 400,000 peoplehttp://on.mktw.net/23svOkd
10:26 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 0 likes
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New York community boards are simultaneously too powerful *and* too weak, all while being unrepresentative:http://gothamist.com/2016/04/12/nyc_community_board_explainer.php …
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My post on fixing it:https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/fixing-the-nyc-rent-crisis-or-the-rent-is-still-too-damn-high-edb13ca853cc#.yv0hprbec …
12:26 PM - 12 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 2 likes
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Social mobility and inequality made worse/partially caused by increasing rent/house prices:http://www.zillow.com/research/social-mobility-housing-costs-12138/ …
12:24 PM - 12 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 2 likes
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This is why Eminent Domain was created
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If you want to see what the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons looks like in real life, look no further than the NY and SF housing markets
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Getting photo retouching done on the composites for my book. Hooray
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Hilariously sad when one's lived answer to the Veil of Ignorance are "Yeah, but that didn't happen. Got mine" or "I'd succeed anyway lol"
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Why America cares about elite schools: https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/why-america-cares-about-elite-schools-411798386ba7#.blfmndiy0 … - partial inspiration credit to
@bencasselman's "Shut Up About Harvard"11:37 AM - 11 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 0 likes
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If you haven't heard the song I composed for my book yet, listen now:https://soundcloud.com/opir/leaves-and-circles …
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The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets:http://wpo.st/-BYT1
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If you like amazing photomanipulation work, check out Flora Borsi: https://www.instagram.com/floraborsiofficial/ …
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Spencer Thomas followed john ☾. worsley, 99Rise, Marcela Bolívar and Ars Fantasio
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@lxGame designer & co-founder at
@clutchplaygames. Digital art, survival horror, & sci-fi. Constant uncertainty & curiosity. In favor of kindness.
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Why America cares about elite schools: https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/why-america-cares-about-elite-schools-411798386ba7#.yof5i6of7 … cc:
@freddiedeboer@saragoldrickrab@jselingo10:01 PM - 9 Apr 2016 · Details0 retweets 2 likes
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Insisting that because you, like me, got yourself out of poverty that anyone should be able to betrays stunning ignorance/willful blindness
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Surviving in a system that leaves so many behind regardless of how hard they work should not you leave you blind to its brokenness
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I, too, dug myself out of poverty through hard work and persistence! Except there was also tons of luck and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Enjoy your daily dose of bootstraps survivorship bias and related social mobility related phenomena: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11458410 …
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Even for non-worshippers of Just World Fallacy, admitting social mobility is a joke is often simply too painful-destroys illusion of control
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