I say this as someone self employed that burned almost $1000 on tokens last month. And had. A lot of fun doing it.

Something about blue states make progress on basic things costly, time consuming, and difficult. Every stakeholder needs their say. Any NIMBY can veto. The loudest, most obnoxious snowflakes dominate public comment. And officials don’t tell them to STFU.

And I don’t see a lot of appetite for soul searching in these states. Just “let’s raise taxes”

You don’t have to convince me we have a broken society where the oligarchs have too much power+wealth. But I’m also not willing to pay more taxes without blue states removing veto points on these projects so can’t easily be derailed by every dumb special interest.

We’re all paying more so loudest amongst can derail and shape progress on important issues.

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You need new datasets perpetually.

Prohibition doesn’t work. Educating consumers and holding companies accountable works. It historically takes time though for that pressure to accumulate to the point of having political will.

We also need teen social media education - like we have about alcohol and drugs. Where we’re frank about the real research. Don’t moralize. Talk about the realities of the situation.

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Nobody had any idea what was coming with the industrial revolution. There wasn't obviously other work for people. And for long periods of time nobody had an answer to that question for large percentage of the population.

In hindsight, we know the answers NOW, but then they did not know what was going to happen. We also don't know what's going to happen, it could go as you hypothesize. Or the Jevon's paradox people might be right and there's way more work to do.

The uncertainty is the historical lesson, not that "it'll all work out"

We may have hindsight bias in evaluating something that happened, but to the people that it happened to it was terrifying.

Much of that got obliterated by automation.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes

For example, the flying jenny, overnight, basically put an entire craft industry of weaving into question. Probably more dramatically than anything Claude Code ever did.

It took A LOT and several world wars for brief periods of normalcy post WW2 - probably the exception, not the rule.

1 - https://industrialrevolutionspod.com/

For some tasks I have, I need to live this way. Obsessing over a task next week takes away from what I’m doing now. I have to trust in my ability to pull it together efficiently. And when it’s due, the work often needs to be fresh in my mind - not something from weeks ago.

Sometimes that means unexpected late nights. But it’s mostly worked out.

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