Who the author calls progressives would better be labeled as liberals. And it is laughable that he would write this article lamenting NIMBYism as the sole cause of the housing crisis compared to the tight-fisted greed of the landlord class and corporations. He continues to valorize “growth” and “prosperity” without addressing the Ponzi scheme that is real estate, which, according to his very own growth doctrine, requires infinite growth in value, lest it symbolize a decline in the economy.
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Thanks for summing that up. I was trying to skim and get the gist of it but it was so unnecessarily long that I bailed when they weren’t ever coming to their thesis statement.
Also: how to say a lot about a topic without saying much at all.
It's great to see Steve Jobs billionaire widow, who owns the Atlantic, bravely assign progressives as what ails the lack of affordable housing, education, public transportation, skilled workforce, unending outsourcing, threadbare management as what stands in the way of a better resources and supported public, instead of the single unifying thing that actually did tear those all down which was the concentration of extreme wealth through unregulated capitalism, of which she is a ridiculously sad example.
Super brave to print this with a fascism ascendent. You could almost wonder if there were financial motivations to align with current policy. The Atlantic was also unilaterally pro-Israel with an Israeli editor. Almost feels like the press may be somewhat bought and biased?
Where does state-run media fall on The Atlantic's list of concerns? Or Jeff Bezos' Washington Post?
We plan, higher-order effects laugh
Americans moved far more often (...) . “We are a migratory people and we flourish best when we make an occasional change of base,” one 19th-century newspaper explained. “We have cut loose from the old styles of human vegetation, the former method, of sticking like an oyster to one spot through numberless succeeding generations,” wrote another.
The word you were looking for is "nomads".
*nomads
Thank you, typo corrected.