Favorite Rejects 2022-05-20

Gernot Wagner @GernotWagner

There's no magic lever to fix it all, but one comes close: removing exclusionary zoning and building more housing in cities. My latest @climate column

bloom.bgBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @wwwojtekk

Greed and price gouging by babysitting entrepreneurs

Rachel Wolfe @rachelbwolfe

One outcome of the child care shortage? Teenage babysitters are making bank Many of the teens I spoke with went from earning $10/hr before the pandemic to as much as $35/hr now "The power dynamics have shifted" one told me https://t.co/q5GrLtoyd0

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Why is there no legislation of any kind from either party to reform anything about how the FDA works? There's been tons of *complaints* about various things coming from various different ideological directions, but members of congress aren't supposed to just post.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The government just doesn't work at all unless members of congress attempt to use their specific constitutional authorities in order to enact their preferred ideas.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@mattyglesias Maybe because the left thinks it's unseemly to criticize "the experts" especially during a D administration and the right has more engaging issues to rile up its base? Another question (it might have the same answer) is why the media hasn't had a sustained focus on FDA failures.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I don't want to be a melodramatic CCP-hater, because they really did do a lot to lift China out of poverty. But if they allowed Chinese people as much freedom as Korea, Taiwan, Japan, or even Singapore, there would be no question whether we were in the Asian Century.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Fundamentally, the CCP simply does not trust average Chinese people. Practically every CCP defender I've run into tells me some variant of "No, you don't understand, Chinese people are so unruly, they need to be controlled." Bullshit.

sandiegouniontribune.comJackie Chan: Chinese people need to be controlledAction star Jackie Chan said Saturday he’s not sure if a free society is a good thing for China and that he’s starting to think “we Chinese need to be controlled.”

Priti Patel Hater @Tweets_of_Oscar

Economic and social freedom is one hell of a drug

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I don't want to be a melodramatic CCP-hater, because they really did do a lot to lift China out of poverty. But if they allowed Chinese people as much freedom as Korea, Taiwan, Japan, or even Singapore, there would be no question whether we were in the Asian Century.

Alfred Twu @alfred_twu

Northern California Combined Zoning Summary! To make it easier to compare zoning across cities, I sorted them all into 15 categories based on density and allowed uses. Details in thread, link to full size image at sites.google.com/view/alfredtwu… 🏘️🐦