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.bg
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
10:54 AM · May 20, 2022
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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
3:07 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.
3:38 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.
3:41 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.
3:50 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.
6:08 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.com
Jackie Chan: Chinese people need to be controlled
6:14 PM · May 20, 2022
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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.
8:46 PM · May 20, 2022
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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… 🏘️🐦
7:18 PM · May 20, 2022
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