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When Ezra and I say that we're for redistribution and govt effectiveness what we mean is ... just that. It's not a subtweet. It's not a wink. It's not code.
I'm a tax and spend liberal. I want the taxes to help reduce poverty, and I want the spending to actually build stuff.
Whoa whoa Derek, you can’t just expect people to know information buried all the way on page 7
𝐀 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐’
Americans of all political affiliation suddenly woke up realize they agree that their healthcare system is inherently cruel and produces unnecessary misery.
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I say this as a college professor: a lot of the pushback you guys are getting from the left has a strong whiff of “didn’t do the reading but has big opinions anyway.”
i’m yet to read a critique where i didn’t seriously question whether have read even the first 20 pages
You should have called the book- " Trump trumps Progressive Economics"
That’s too bad. Government dependency is ruining our country and exploding the debt.
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I'm getting a lot of questions already answered by my "These are important policies, and we support them" shirt.
I want people to be able to afford food, rent, medical care and all the rest, and I’m happy if my tax dollars go towards helping that. It would be even better if the costs of those things went down so that my tax dollars could go further and help more people, especially children.
That’s not what I’m getting from the reviews. The reviews claim that the argument _sidelines_ redistribution, so that while it’s not ruled out, it’s not taken seriously as an end in itself, or explored separately from what pro-growth policy could accomplish.
I think this is exactly what people are saying. The left wants these programs expanded and made universal, while you guys the support status quo. Building more/better is not objectionable, offering that as a contrast to those fighting to make the system more fair is.
"A smaller piece of a bigger pie is still more pie" as the saying from the '50s goes. This isn't difficult, people!
𝐀 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐’
Americans of all political affiliation suddenly woke up realize they agree that their healthcare system is inherently cruel and produces unnecessary misery.
★ NEW ARTICLE
Shortly before that you also suggest that the profits of AI are somehow "shared".
Would be quite the conundrum if giving people all this money or money-like vouchers for things tended to reduce the supply of these things
yeah. so many people don't want to reason about this topic, they just see someone they don't like said "abundance" and assume you guys agree with them.
They know. It’s deliberate. Rather than making arguments, it’s much easier to construe people as rightwing in some way.
Then why a whole new 'Abundance' thing? Why not just write in the book: "Medicare for All is the best way to provide universal healthcare" and then throw your weight behind that political movement?
Healthcare is about the only thing on there that "works".
1. I get $23 a month in food stamps (parent + child household).
2. Housing vouchers are effectively unicorns.
3. idk about Pell Grants cuz I didn't attend more than 1 semester of upper ed.
4. Tax credits don't do
Let's be realistic though. We all know you are for that stuff but the country cannot sustain a debt level growth higher than the GDL growth. Even with a supposed increase in state capacity to increase growth. Cuts will need to be made.
Right, and Trump could be a hero if he did nothing other than build a ton of housing instead of being a petty little Put1n b1tch.
Not seeing where this indicates support for Medicare for All, government built housing, UBI, free college and trade school, loan forgiveness etc etc.
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@ezraklein @DKThomp wish I got to ask you this tonight… you said we should have courage to hate (or reform) doctors and hospitals, how do you feel about unions and especially public unions? They’re also equally difficult partners that stifle abundance.
So your argument against 'your book doesn't talk enough about expanding redistributive policies' is 'look at this passage where we say we're fine with existing programs but, instead of talking about expanding them, let's talk about something entirely different'?
You're getting it from both sides, because "Abundance" doesn't actually mean anything new. It's reheated bullshit. You're trying to reheat Bill Clinton's nachos in 2025.
So you’re basically calling for DOGE style audit on government spending as a counter to oligarchs’ looting of the federal government???
That’s your pitch, we’ll be musk’s goons but sincerely? Little attempt to grapple with the audience’s actual resentments either elite or base
Derek I’m gonna need you to sit down as I tell you that the people coming out against your book have largely not read it or given it any amount of critical thinking
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Nah, it just seems like a contradiction. We want to decommodify health care since insurance companies shouldn't make a profit off our health & the insurance market fails. The same thing with housing. You still want to let developers profit off an essential need & the market fails
. total Klusterfuck. Do not trust Abundance. All land grab for roads and highways and land.
Yea, definitely not superficial lip service so that they can say they mentioned it at some point and then completely ignore to focus on enriching and empowering their wealthy masters.
It’s all based on keeping them dependent. Independence scares the hell out of liberals and progressives. Because once someone realizes they are capable and able to support themselves (see legal Mexican immigrants for example they vote for center right policies
Your book opens with a scifi fantasia suggesting that if we support developing boner pills for rich people it will eventually lead to Techno-Xanadu.
This does not read as an "and" this reads as replacement of redistribution with supply side policies.
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