@mattyglesias.bsky.social
But thatβs my point β at the end of the day these tactics from Uber defeated entrenched taxi cartels and made the world better.
All things considered, itβs good and not a cautionary tale.
Over the weekend, Bloomberg will publish my column hailing a bipartisan compromise reached by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott on federal housing policy.
01.08.2025 11:44 β π 32 π 0 π¬ 3 π 1I wrote four posts this week.
One is about the 19th century novel Wuthering Heights, one recapitulates Platoβs argument from Gorgias, one is about optimal tax policy for states with heavily seasonal patterns of economic activity, and one says existing YIMBY groups have a correct big tent approach.
I donβt think this is accurate
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This weekβs mailbag is by @BenKrauss5 who is moving to Taiwan and stepping aside from his full-time job at Slow Boring.
www.slowboring.com/p/a-zoomer-e...
For those who prefer to get both the novelistβs ideas as well as the criticβs thinking.
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Tourists and vacation homes are a great opportunity for the states that host them, the key thing is to think smart about how to use tax policy to make visitors win-win.
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Pedocon theory is a βtheoryβ in the same sense that Charles Darwin outlined the theory of evolution.
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Verbal debates where people talk at each other are a terrible way to decide who is right about things or to learn about the issues they are debating.
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Agriculture is β1/3 of the climate problem. It's 70% of our freshwater. It's the leading driver of deforestation, wetland destruction, & water pollution. β¦ basically anything that's bad for the planet, agriculture has a pretty big role to play in it.β
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True single-issue groups can be frustrating but itβs also a powerful way to break down contemporary ultra-polarized politics, pass bills, and maybe make the world a little less psycho all the time.
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A tariff is much worse than a consumption tax
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I thought @mattyglesias.bsky.social's tax policy piece today was great ... stay away from "plans", have clear goals (repeal the regressive Trump taxes, don't set arbitrary dollar limits), but I do think an FTT ought to be on the table www.slowboring.com/p/repairing-...
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The MCU and the origins of Abundance
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AI data centers using water is the least of our problems with regard to either water or artificial intelligence.
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Foreign aid money is scarce, politically unpopular, and should be reserved for poor countries or cases like Ukraine where we are helping someone fend off a much stronger enemy.
Without getting into stronger critiques, Israel just doesnβt qualify.
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A slightly weird aspect of American constitutional law is that the only way to restrict advertising for something β booze, pot, gambling, prescription drugs β is to make it illegal.
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Thereβs a big gap on *values* (not facts) between scientific experts and the mass public, which is driving a lot of the crisis of confidence in institutions and expertise.
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Seems like itβs over for pro-Israel Democrats, though Iβm curious what the base will find acceptable as a new approach.
16.07.2025 11:49 β π 145 π 17 π¬ 33 π 1No, Cuomo is the βcelebrityβ in this construct β party elites who didnβt want Mamdani to win couldnβt shove Cuomo aside in favor of a lesser-known politician without the scandals and other negatives.
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The IRA approach to climate change was fatally undermined by regulatory decisions that had smaller emissions benefits and larger political backlash.
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Agreeing with me is good, though β I love to agree with people :)
14.07.2025 16:45 β π 57 π 1 π¬ 7 π 1We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wuβs move
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
Inclusionary zoning is a targeted tax on the construction of new housing β the absolute worst way you could think of to raise money for investments in social housing projects.
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You need to give teachers a job that itβs actually feasible to do
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Shootings and murders have fallen rapidly for the past two and a half years, and the national homicide rate may drop below its 2014 low point depending on how the rest of this summer goes.
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Republicans think they are immune to backlash over OBBBA and Trumpβs failures on the cost of living because they think Democrats wonβt run candidates with acceptable views on culture and energy.
The job is to prove them wrong.
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Itβs not just politics, everyone is old now.
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Trumpβs attacks on free speech are scary, and whatβs even scarier is lots of institutions are inclined to surrender preemptively rather than fight in court against abuses of power.
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Obama good
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