"Republicans offered the professional class one increasingly attractive inducement: a chance to become, essentially, financial managers in the new shareholder economy. In the 1980s, these “yuppies” contributed to two Reagan landslides." = "we were promised flying cars", $ edition
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"What is remarkable about today’s oligarchy is not its ruthlessness but its pettiness and purposelessness. An all-consuming megalomania might at least produce some great art as a side-effect. But this collection of mediocrities cannot even do that."
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"future historians of American collapse will find something truly exceptional: capitalism without competence and feudalism without nobility."
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fin this was a good read. As close as I've seen anyone come to clearly stating the core problem of the Great Weirding.
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The most important insight I got out of this was how Warren and Sanders each solve one half of the problem but make the other half intractable. In predictive terms the paradox results in: Sanders could win the election, but probably not the nomination. Warren other way around
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I think the tldr is: the laboring class is politically still potent but economically a deadweight loss and everybody (including they themselves) knows it and has acknowledged it. The professional class still thinks it has a shot at resurrection.
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So on the narrow question of winning POTUS, the right candidate would be a mix of Obama and Trump: promise hope to the elites and the chance to bloody a few noses to the laboring class. The paradox being they want to bloody the noses of the class looking for hope.
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One solution: run for POTUS on campaign promise of a Purge, but where elites get free guns, and if they survive, they get UBI and climate action. The masses get to mount the heads of any elites they take down on spikes. 0.1% capital winners will be parked in orbit during Purge
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