The other argument I am seeing a lot of is the affordability "crisis," which may be a crisis of perception, or anxiety, or values instead. David Foster and bsking have also had things to say on it. My wife's mother had a cleaning lady who came in once or twice a week for years, and people have nannies now. Before that, lots of people had maids or cooks that put in a lot of hours. With larger and multigenerational families and big Victorian houses there was more work per household. Many labor saving devices were not yet invented. But Matthew Iglesias points out that the reason people don't have servants now is not because their wages are less, but because servants wages are more.
Lyman Stone links to two problems for the hereditarians
There has been actual fraud, excused by prominent researchers
and comments himself that we have in fact modified real-world phenotypic intelligence with things right under our noses. He analogises to better visit because of glasses, contacts, and surgery even though genotypic eyesight isn't any better
Maybe Y'all Really Do Need Jesus by the always controversial and entertaining Cartoon Hate Her. She is a one of the rare adult converts who had no religious upbringing whatsoever.
The Great Downzoning "It was once legal to build almost anything, everywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?"
Has an English Civil War Already Begun?
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