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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Andrew McAfee‏ @amcafee 21 Nov 2020

      Andrew McAfee Retweeted Peter Turchin

      Twitter punditry is full of statements of the form "our democracy cannot survive ______" That said I'm not sure our democracy can survive ever-deepening unhappiness among those without a college degree.https://twitter.com/Peter_Turchin/status/1329846632985276416 …

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      Peter Turchin @Peter_Turchin
      This is probably the most vivid evidence of immiseration that I've seen so far. From: The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016. Twenge, J. M., & Cooper, A. B. (2020) https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000774 … pic.twitter.com/EWKHVJRqlA
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    2. Andrew McAfee‏ @amcafee 21 Nov 2020

      It's true that college degree holders make up an ever-higher % of the US population over time, but they're still a minority (currently ~34% of civilian workforce) https://seekingalpha.com/article/137080-dont-overlook-the-unemployed-who-lack-college-degrees …pic.twitter.com/9zYCphppNO

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    3. Andrew McAfee‏ @amcafee 21 Nov 2020

      It seems unlikely that this is a composition effect -- that the main thing going on is that colleges have been "vacuuming up" the happiest people over time. I say this because if you split by income instead of education, same trend is visiblepic.twitter.com/K4PmGLUtgB

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    4. Andrew McAfee‏ @amcafee 21 Nov 2020

      These graphs are from this paper by Twenge and Cooper: "The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016." https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000774 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Nov 2020
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      That is so striking. Wow.

      6:47 AM - 21 Nov 2020
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        2. Andrew McAfee‏ @amcafee 21 Nov 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yep. Ties in with “Deaths of Despair, “Coming Apart,” and others. I’m kinda hoping someone can make a case that the happiness trends are just an artifact of _____x, but I’m not holding my breath.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Nov 2020
          Replying to @amcafee

          Yeah. I’m gonna go read the paper, but I agree that it’s unlikely to be an artifact.

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