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Noah Smith: We Can Build Again

From the New World

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The Social Powder Kick of the 2000s

People who don't remember the world of the 2000s because they're too young do not remember how different it was. There's lots of progress almost fronts and yeah white men dominated like the ranks of management and whatever tenured professors or whoever but yet things were diversifying. By by 2010 or by the early 2010s that feeling of progress kind of stalled, even as we had become very rapidly this much more diverse society right our in our educated elite had just gone from essentially almost all white with a few sprinklings of like I don't know Taiwanese people or whatever to  almost entirely whiteeducated elite in the 80s and 90s. David many times talks about status explicitly which Tyler Cow

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