States are bad units for this. States minus blue metros. Red donuts.
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @8ball_sean @vgr
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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Replying to @8ball_sean @vgr
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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Replying to @8ball_sean
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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @8ball_sean
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.
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @8ball_sean
They are not opioid addicted wrecks in devastated industrial towns. They’re just traumatized by their own expectations.
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Replying to @vgr
Im pretty sure LA and NY used to be robust industrial towns and the number of used syringes i see outside my apartment would indicate there are many junkies in Echo Park.
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If you look for indicators to confirm your doom tales you will always find them. If you want to ignore all positive trends you will find rationalizations to do so.
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