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17 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 12h \ parent \ on: "Housing prices are not high by any historical standard" - evoskuil econ
He's the current main dev of libbitcoin and author of Cryptoeconomics Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin.
He's definitely contrarian.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 11h
Cool... I can respect his contributions to bitcoin, but he's wrong on housing.
If his main point was that "life is actually better for young people now, stop complaining", I wouldn't disagree... though there'd be some nuance to add.
(Basically, I think young people are less happy, but it's in many ways self inflicted... and not correctable by moar material goods.)
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129 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 11h
"life is actually better for young people now, stop complaining"
That's kind of how I read him.
I think young people are less happy
Hyperbolically, I'd ask: but isn't that because if you grow up having everything, and the only thing you do (all damn day) is measure your life to that of a celeb on tiktok, you will not be easily satisfied?
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 11h
Social media comparison game, overly high expectations, lack of purpose and identity, lack of in-person interaction, culture that promotes consumerism without telos, you name it
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11h
I guess we're aligned on that one.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 12h
Also a Top-Gun fighter pilot, sold a policy engine to Microsoft years before Bitcoin was a thing... adversarial thinker, such thinking tends to rub sheep the wrong way.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 12h
Yes. I appreciate his takes.
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