Alice Evans

And the US may be better because they'll get all the world's migrants. They'll get the most productive migrants. They'll get the most entrepreneurial migrants. But they should also become, if we're right, more conservative and more Republican.

And the US may be better because they'll get all the world's migrants. They'll get the most productive migrants. They'll get the most entrepreneurial migrants. But they should also become, if we're right, more conservative and more Republican.

Yes.

Yes.

Well, I think certainly that if people grow up with a certain standard of living and a certain quality of public services, and then those deteriorate as a result of population aging and lower rates of economic dynamism, then people should get fed up and frustrated.

Well, I think certainly that if people grow up with a certain standard of living and a certain quality of public services, and then those deteriorate as a result of population aging and lower rates of economic dynamism, then people should get fed up and frustrated.

Simultaneously, as people spend more time on their phones hooked on these echo chambers, polarizing differently, not just by gender, but polarizing. Right. then the less time that we spend socializing with different other people, the less we develop understanding right across genders, right across political groups.

Simultaneously, as people spend more time on their phones hooked on these echo chambers, polarizing differently, not just by gender, but polarizing. Right. then the less time that we spend socializing with different other people, the less we develop understanding right across genders, right across political groups.

And as we become more illiberal, I would predict that would fuel political authoritarianism because those guys are the bad guys and we'll do anything to stop them from winning and we'll support our strongman to stop those crazy people winning. So I would just expect lots of economic frustrations, lots of support for illiberalism, etc. It's a bad future, right?

And as we become more illiberal, I would predict that would fuel political authoritarianism because those guys are the bad guys and we'll do anything to stop them from winning and we'll support our strongman to stop those crazy people winning. So I would just expect lots of economic frustrations, lots of support for illiberalism, etc. It's a bad future, right?

Absolutely. Yes. So you'll have this political lobby group of old people who are directly concerned with pensions and health care rather than economic dynamism and frictions. So then it becomes harder to be a young person. And so we go back to the disadvantaged man.

Absolutely. Yes. So you'll have this political lobby group of old people who are directly concerned with pensions and health care rather than economic dynamism and frictions. So then it becomes harder to be a young person. And so we go back to the disadvantaged man.

It's harder to move upwards as a disadvantaged man and harder to get a wife if the entire voting system is rigged by these old people who don't care so much about you.

It's harder to move upwards as a disadvantaged man and harder to get a wife if the entire voting system is rigged by these old people who don't care so much about you.

I don't think that's true because, I mean, in China, when you talk about those cities, those tower blocks, China is currently dealing with massive local government debt because so much of the local governments, their assets are in buildings that no one is buying. So that's not a win. Those empty cities are no sense of win.

I don't think that's true because, I mean, in China, when you talk about those cities, those tower blocks, China is currently dealing with massive local government debt because so much of the local governments, their assets are in buildings that no one is buying. So that's not a win. Those empty cities are no sense of win.

No one is moving to those cities because there's no jobs, no demand, nothing there.

No one is moving to those cities because there's no jobs, no demand, nothing there.

So let's say, you know, it would be amazing and I'd love to see it if some community group forged a space in the US and like, OK, how can we arrange this community space? Maybe it's 100 households. How can we arrange it in a pro-coupling, pro-fertility way? That would be fascinating to explore. But just because there's a plot of vacant land, I wouldn't expect anything to follow.

So let's say, you know, it would be amazing and I'd love to see it if some community group forged a space in the US and like, OK, how can we arrange this community space? Maybe it's 100 households. How can we arrange it in a pro-coupling, pro-fertility way? That would be fascinating to explore. But just because there's a plot of vacant land, I wouldn't expect anything to follow.