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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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Is It the Jobs and Shit?

David Brooks wrote a column about how people are hoarding opportunity in America. The article used the sandwich anecdote to say it's not really, really fucking obvious things like jobs don't pay as much or housing costs more than it used to. "It is remarkable how many times he can write these pieces that tout the unreasonableness of like liberal, coastal cosmopolitan aesthetics"

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