Man, NOBODY likes “unlimited paid time off”. We had it for a year or two at a law firm I worked at. Out of all the complaints there are about big law firm practice, I don’t think any of them garnered as much discontent as unlimited PTO.
It used to be that old conservative political men would send young men to die in the old political men's wars.
Today it would be the man-hostile political matriarchal elite sending young men to die in political matriarchal elite's wars.
At least in the previous times the old political men were once young men and had some natural empathy for the decisions they made that led to the death of so many young men.
Not so with the modern political elite. They have telegraphed that they would very much like those young men to die. Thus those young men should simply reject the orders to do so.
Im increasingly concerned home school advocates and parents nervous about (often identity based-) bullying will coalesce and destroy public education by making schools go Zoom only.
On obnoxious YIMBYism: virtually all social-justice activism today seems to be about shaming and bullying people into compliance, though name-calling and threats of reputational (and sometimes even physical) violence. That can work with race and gender, because no one wants to be called a racist, and very few a transphobe (at least in blue areas).
But no one really cares if you call them NIMBY, especially when its definition boils down to "anything a YIMBY doesn't like, regardless of merit". You're not going to get someone's employer to fire them by accusing them of being a NIMBY on Twitter, and YIMBYs aren't fanatical enough to beat people up, commit arson, etc..
YIMBYismn needs to use respectful engagement and persuasion, but there's little in present SJ activism for YIMBYs to use as a model. And so here we are, 10 years after The Rent is Too Damn High was published, and I'm not sure that YIMBYism has accomplished all that much.
Regarding your "Book Recommendation" for this week, those who are interested in Turchin's general ideas but want a less academic and more enjoyable read might consider his earlier work "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires." It looks at his theory from a worldwide perspective, using numerous examples from world history.
Man, NOBODY likes “unlimited paid time off”. We had it for a year or two at a law firm I worked at. Out of all the complaints there are about big law firm practice, I don’t think any of them garnered as much discontent as unlimited PTO.
It used to be that old conservative political men would send young men to die in the old political men's wars.
Today it would be the man-hostile political matriarchal elite sending young men to die in political matriarchal elite's wars.
At least in the previous times the old political men were once young men and had some natural empathy for the decisions they made that led to the death of so many young men.
Not so with the modern political elite. They have telegraphed that they would very much like those young men to die. Thus those young men should simply reject the orders to do so.
Im increasingly concerned home school advocates and parents nervous about (often identity based-) bullying will coalesce and destroy public education by making schools go Zoom only.
On obnoxious YIMBYism: virtually all social-justice activism today seems to be about shaming and bullying people into compliance, though name-calling and threats of reputational (and sometimes even physical) violence. That can work with race and gender, because no one wants to be called a racist, and very few a transphobe (at least in blue areas).
But no one really cares if you call them NIMBY, especially when its definition boils down to "anything a YIMBY doesn't like, regardless of merit". You're not going to get someone's employer to fire them by accusing them of being a NIMBY on Twitter, and YIMBYs aren't fanatical enough to beat people up, commit arson, etc..
YIMBYismn needs to use respectful engagement and persuasion, but there's little in present SJ activism for YIMBYs to use as a model. And so here we are, 10 years after The Rent is Too Damn High was published, and I'm not sure that YIMBYism has accomplished all that much.
Regarding your "Book Recommendation" for this week, those who are interested in Turchin's general ideas but want a less academic and more enjoyable read might consider his earlier work "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires." It looks at his theory from a worldwide perspective, using numerous examples from world history.