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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Replying to @chenoehart
What part is expensive? I hadn’t noticed that aspect.
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @chenoehart
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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @chenoehart @vgr
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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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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Replying to @vgr @chenoehart
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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