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Santa Monica, ever the innovator, is breaking new ground in the field of blocking new homes by appropriating the language of social justice. This proposed initiative would require developers to pay up to 2.7 times the prevailing wage, which is of course completely infeasible.
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On the other hand, maybe the point is making people who want to be lawyers show they can navigate a cruel, irrational, dysfunctional system. https://t.co/e8W12yzkN4
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Ari Cohn @AriCohn
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There has always been a tension between liberalism and democracy, which sensible liberals have reacted to with things like the welfare state to create a democratically viable form of market economy.
And societies ordered that way have driven incredible progress and prosperity.
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The Thiel concept is that this settlement is unacceptable, and you need to wield populism as a mask with which to destroy democracy — and then it can be discarded in pursuit of a capitalism unbound by democratic regulation.
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To me this is a crazy bet — there are lots of successful variations on the theme of welfare state capitalism while the odds on “roll the dice and hope you end up with Singapore instead of North Korea” look awfully bad.
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SF is right out of a William Gibson novel...
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) 🇺🇦 @antoniogm
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Please do not rally around the CDC. The agency needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. It is a giant flaming Hindenburg of failure.
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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver