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Replying to @vgr
Worth noting that distinct cohort groupings are smoothing out, esp. as baby boom shock fades; total peak-trough variance now only ~10%
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Replying to @davidmanheim @vgr
more importantly, GSS responses diverge at a constant rate, indicating no gen distinction http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/05/do-generations-exist.html …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @davidmanheim
How the world talks about you is a huge factor in shaping identity. As are big macro events at critical times.
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Replying to @vgr @davidmanheim
I think that there's still important notion of gen, it should just not be *fixed*
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for instance, "millenials" groups ppl who were just born and 21 when 9/11 happened: very big difference
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @davidmanheim
Let me put it this way: Strauss-Howe has legs to the extent insti creative-destruction cycles exist.
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Replying to @vgr @The_Lagrangian
I like that as an explanation much more; the institutional cycles reinforce, and are reinforced by, the demographics.
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But the implication is that Shkreli, Snowden are reinforcers of the unimportance of rest of their cohort, not products.
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as a side effect, yes, though that is unlikely to be their intent...
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Replying to @vgr
emergent results of complex games aren't intentional, but institutional defection has clear results reducing (stability of) cooperation
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Replying to @davidmanheim @vgr
they can't claim they didn't know it would be destabilizing in the short term - and they don't. They say they want the system to burn.
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