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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Jun \ parent \ on: Portland's Politics and the Fall of Big Pink econ
I think it could happen quicker than you think. I think social views are like a Veblen good, and thus when their liberal views are no longer fashionable, the consensus can shift pretty quickly. In other words, few of these ideologues are true believers, and once these beliefs no longer signal virtue they'll quickly switch to different beliefs.
I hope that's right. It just doesn't fit with my experience of these people. I may not live on the West Coast, but most of my social circle does.
I could imagine them allowing for some realities eventually, but not giving up the premises that generated the errors. Eventually, there will be a generational shift in values, I suppose.
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From everything I read, it looks like gen Z is moving to a more “conservative” way of thinking.
I think the pendulum swings more on a time scale than a generational scale. Also, as people get older they seem to get more “conservative”, don’t they?
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as people get older they seem to get more “conservative”, don’t they?
Normally, I think, but I'm not sure it holds out there.
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I just noticed it in people around me. The older they are, sometimes, the more conservative they get. I have some neighbors in their 70s and 80s that seem pretty darn conservative.
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Looking at the ideologies as Veblen goods is a new approach to me. It seems that a lot of the people taking these views are motivated more by envy than status. Although, I can see the point of your argument that if it suddenly becomes an anti-Veblen good things would change quickly. I just wonder if this approach has ever been tried. How fast would the change be, do you think?
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