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  1. No Country for Old Guys

    my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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  2. It seems to me that Jain, like Yglesias and Nichols and dozens of others, hasn't offered a worthwhile addition to the discourse in a while, yet has the curious ability to suck people into engaging. I'm not fond of seeing their predictable drivel swallow up my timeline for 24 hours every so often.

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  3. To that 2nd part, the Dems need to rake NYT and WaPo over the coals in offhand comments at all times.

    I don't have any delusions that this would cause Sulzberger or Bezos to alter the papers' trajectories, but the older, wealthier Dem base needs to be repeatedly told that these wells are poisoned.

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