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    1. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 10 Dec 2019
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      Want to go to sleep and fast-forward to a time period in which the presence of weirdness in the everyday lives of ordinary people is more affordable.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2019
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      What part is expensive? I hadn’t noticed that aspect.

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    3. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 10 Dec 2019
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      I guess I’m mostly thinking about the familiar cliche of how housing + student loan debt likely forces a lot of people to make more conservative life choices than they otherwise would.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2019
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      Hmm what’s weird about that? Seems like one of the few parts of the weirding that is a logical continuation of a pre-weirding trend.

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    5. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 10 Dec 2019
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      I think it’s based on an assumption that more freedom would allow more people to try & make radical choices, but OTOH I can definitely think of plenty of cases where I’ve seen people who had relative freedom not necessarily use it in any imaginative way.

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    6. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 10 Dec 2019
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      I don’t know to what extent that’s an inherent limitation of freedom itself, or due to the lack of a critical mass of other people who would also need to have sufficient freedom in order to create supportive communities & cultures for following a wider range of alternative paths.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2019
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      I think 50 years of cheap independent living and home ownership for young people was perhaps the weird American anomaly that is now renormalizing 🤔

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        1. Sean‏ @seanlinsley 10 Dec 2019
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          renormalizing into a hellscape where no one, not in apartments nor in homes, can reasonably pay for their housing on a modest salary

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