Favorite Rejects 2022-04-17

SF YIMBY @SFyimby

San Francisco deserves a positive vision of housing abundance, with room for everyone. Vote for housing. Vote for Haney.

Matt Haney @MattHaneySF

Whether you've lived in San Francisco your whole life, 10 years, or just moved here, our city & its officials should value you. For as long as there's been a San Francisco, this city has been a refuge. We have to build more housing to welcome more people & prevent displacement.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This would be the China 1979 strategy. Just say "Vietnam has been punished" and withdraw, and tell everyone you won when you obviously lost. Deng never paid much of a political price for the loss, so maybe Putin wouldn't either.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

If this guy is still on Russian television in the next few days and saying the same things, hmm https://t.co/dHJtwpb3Cx

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

otoh electricity is pretty convenient https://t.co/ZbeqAG40Ly

Azie Dungey @AzieDee

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days out of the year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less free time than a Medieval peasant.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I mean under Bill Clinton, Democrats raised taxes on the rich to cut the deficit. Then under Barack Obama, Democrats raised taxes on the rich to cut the deficit. What I am saying is given today’s circumstances, the Biden-era party should copy its predecessors.

Pradheep J. Shanker @Neoavatara

It would not help, because Democrats won't actually pay down the debt with it; they would spend it, and then the inflationary benefit would be nil. https://t.co/rJPqdL9zWA

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Too many people are consistent in their positions over time rather than being consistent in principles and shifting positions as circumstances change.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The broad dynamic here is obvious but the specific calculations are very interesting “Atlanta would have the largest revenue decline (5.7 percent).  The lowest predicted revenue declines are for Los Angeles and Charlotte–between 1 and 2 percent.” (DC is not in the study) https://t.co/0wEe2NO1ry

Jim Russell @ProducerCities

New Study: Increase in Working from Home Could Depress Commercial Real Estate Prices, Reduce Local Tax Revenue – ITEP https://t.co/aMF80MJtFl

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

LA has to be the city best-situated for remote work — the relevant industry agglomeration isn’t really based on offices at all, there’s already incredible job sprawl and the transportation is totally dysfunctional, but the weather/food and general amenities are great.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Apple is an example of a company that, unlike digital media companies or even Starbucks or Amazon, has very high profit margins and thus a ton of scope for a unionized workforce to successfully appropriate some surplus for itself.

9to5mac.comApple Store employees at flagship NYC location take first steps towards unionizingWorkers at one of Apple’s flagship retail locations in New York City are taking the first steps to unionize. As first reported by The Washington Post this weekend, workers at the Apple Store located in Grand Central Terminal are now collecting signatures to begin the unionization process. If success…

Sara Libby @SaraLibby

California wants to be a haven for abortion-seekers, trans people seeking gender-affirming care, refugees seeking safety. But its heart is writing checks its housing element can’t cash.

sfchronicle.comCalifornia can’t be a haven for others until it builds more housing for everyoneCalifornia leaders say they want to make the state a haven for people fleeing oppression...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Are some people just totally immune to Covid? At this point my family has had so many exposures (and we do always test after one like good libs!) and yet still free and clear. I’m officially in the “everyone’s gonna get it no matter what” camp, but maybe we won’t?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

When the technology arrives are we going to automate trucking and reap the productivity gains, or is it going to be like ports and subways where the automation technology has existed for a long time and we just don't use it in America because jobs?