Alex Tabarrok

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240 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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Compared to the past, we are doing better.

Yeah.

There's no question of that.

Now, to be sure, there are some key areas like housing, right?

Housing is much more expensive, you know, than it should be.

You know, that's a zoning problem.

That's a choice people have been making.

I think a bad choice.

I think we ought to do something about it.

But even with housing,

You know, houses are so much better today.

They're larger.

Kids have their own rooms.

You know, in 1960, a large fraction of the housing stock in 1960 didn't have indoor toilet, didn't have indoor plumbing.

That was still pretty common not to have indoor plumbing.

So I don't think it's compared.

I think if people are...

saying that we are worse off in the past, I think that's incorrect.

Maybe what's going on is that inequality has gone up somewhat, not as much as people often think, but it has gone up somewhat.

And of course, we have more access to seeing inequality, you know, Instagram and stuff like that, which is sort of a fake, you know.

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