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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      This is fun, hijacking and forking someone else’s thread in a new, extremist direction

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Micromanorial economy. Maybe everybody can also have a budget “family office”, time-shared e-butler, etc.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted

      This pattern is mostly cost-control and defensive in 2019, to hold position rather than ambitiously move forward like in 2006. https://twitter.com/aelkus/status/1201247629398757376?s=21 … https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1201247629398757376 …

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Hot take: tradwifery, ironic or sincere, is economically a conservative status-stop-loss downward class-mobility defense. Domestic stock buyback to take family, inc. private almost. Two-income living is increasingly a bad deal in big, expensive cities, especially with kids

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      It is a better deal to have one member of a couple stay home and take over a lot of internal service and product operations that would be far too expensive to buy at market rates. Childcare is an obvious example.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Idea: “who should quit working outside the home?” calculator for couples. It’s no longer a gender roles/cultural performance question. It’s a business decision. For many couples, it would in fact be financially a tactical stroke of genius forvthe guy to quit and be COO of home.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Prediction: enterprization of consumption will be followed soon by the bro-ization of house-husbanding. Somebody will rebrand household work and shopping/errands as “Home hacking” or something. Cf marketing/PR —> “growth-hacking” via bro-ization.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Bromom would be peak-bro. I’m betting beards and smart-home hacking projects with RPis will replace feminine markers of domestic authority like flagship thanksgiving dinners

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Theory: neoliberal dream is done for good, but the only way we can emerge out of this shitty ethnonationalist reactionary phase and return to a historic trend towards increasingly pluralistic globalized cosmopolitanism is to lean into the micromanorialization of households.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      The unreconstructed traditional family is the heart of the reactionary ethnonationalist project. Driving it towards a postmodern non-traditional business-like construct designed for dense urban environments and information economy is central to coming out the other side.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Software eats the family 🤣

      1:42 PM - 1 Dec 2019
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      • Rahul Ramchandani Saurabh Chandra simulation QA analyst QC Sam Panini 🇺🇸 Zack Kanter Tamara knlÆ.ponzi Хау фон Бернкастель
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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          The only way out of enterprization of consumption is through

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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          If you have kids and are in the US, seriously consider a family LLC as your estate planning vehicle.

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        1. Saurabh Chandra‏ @saurabhchandra 1 Dec 2019
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          This should be the title of this post.

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