Also, this:

I had a friend who did exactly this — he lived alone and worked full-time at  Blockbuster. In 1995 he was able to afford a small apartment, a cheap car, food and entertainment all on his own. That would be 100% absolutely fucking impossible now in any US city.

This is clownish bullshit:

This distortion is caused by the top 10% having much, much larger houses, skewing the average (and households have gotten smaller).

The reality is this:

Noah Smith and related econs (emphasis on “con”) cannot admit the above is the common case as that leads to exile from the profession — because the whole point of modern economics is to exalt power and wealth. As a result, nearly all of the economic stats you see are just pure lies.

(And no, this is not sour grapes. I make well above 4x the median individual income, and that does not include any of my quite numerous and profitable stock market shenanigans. I am doing great. Others, not so much.)

The first ten on today’s playlist:

This is completely true.

We kinda created a culture where the only guys who are free to take risks & make mistakes they can learn from are the ones who don’t respect or care about what women say or how they feel.

This is why guys believe women go for assholes. They judge men’s behavior based on the standards women set & notice they have more success with women. It’s not so much that you have to be attractive to get away with it, but that getting away with it makes you attractive

I learned that too. I don’t care about supermodels or models in general, but I figured out that if you ask a thousand supermodels out, eventually one will say yes. Women tell you this sort of thing is not true but of fucking course it is. And as I have noted before, they are the ones who have created this atrocious equilibrium and only they can change it.

And unfortunately, the incels are right: acting more jerkish does in fact attract significantly more women. This is because too many women equate jerkishness with confidence. It’s false but if you try convincing most women of that, they’ll call you an incel too.