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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      They’ve seemingly given up all hope of participation in any economic activity that has emerged since about 1985. They use computers but act like they wish the PC and everything that came after hadn’t been invented at all. It’s odd to not feel at least a little excitement about it

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted  🪐 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨

      unPlan because what Red America *has* right now is something like a 1980s vintage Marshall Plan. It’s a bad 1940s vintage plan based on a self-template mix of trying to install the free market via a command economy.https://twitter.com/mwiik/status/1307394786895245315?s=21 …

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      unPlan? Could you clarify? Thanks
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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      It was an advanced idea for 1948. It was a bad idea for 1985 that created a dysfunctional Red welfare state that aimed to prop up dignity without creating any real economic agency. In 2020 it is a hopelessly bad model.

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    4. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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      Does your red state definition include Texas, Florida, Utah, Georgia?

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      States are bad units for this. States minus blue metros. Red donuts.

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    6. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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      Hmm—theres a big difference between purple red state metros and deep blue state metros. Also the big winners (NY, LA, SF) are facing quite a few structural problems themselves. Covid exposed them but they were there before. US needs to reimagine itself as a developing country.

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    7. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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      Im wary of blame the losers of globalization since its most Americans. If the top 10-20% of Americans are too insulated to see that the “winning” blue states and the “winning” metros are shrinking it seems like a much bigger problem.

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    8. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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      The young people that snuck across the cultural Berlin Wall now mostly also face declining standards of living. Credentialism was always just plausible deniability for American decline.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      That’s just the blue lottery. Many won big too. That’s why there’s plenty of closet Trumperies in high blue places. They snuck across but retained some fundamental attutudes. Your use of the term “American decline” says it all. The part that thrived feels like a foreign country.

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    10. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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      Wait which part thrived? You’re admitting that the majority of the people living in NY, LA, and SF increasingly face the same destabilizing winds that radicalized Trump country. Tech and finance have produced a new elite with an attendant PMC but what else?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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      Perspective dude. 1985 to 2015 was a sustained boom and a lot of us thrived. Me included. Don’t overindex on you and your friends.

      12:53 PM - 19 Sep 2020
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        2. Sean Monahan‏ @8ball_sean Sep 19
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          Not trying to flame u. Just pointing out most of my friends from elite universities who work in tech, media, and culture have a negative tale despite living in places you claim are optimistic

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 19
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          They are not opioid addicted wrecks in devastated industrial towns. They’re just traumatized by their own expectations.

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