Derek Thompson

We don't have enough PCPs, enough general care doctors in this country because for a variety of reasons, we shrink the number of residency slots or cap the number of residency slots and thereby restrict the number of people that can become doctors to allow doctors to have a higher wage or at least had this law that did that a couple decades ago that's been really, really bad in terms of doctor abundance.

We don't have enough PCPs, enough general care doctors in this country because for a variety of reasons, we shrink the number of residency slots or cap the number of residency slots and thereby restrict the number of people that can become doctors to allow doctors to have a higher wage or at least had this law that did that a couple decades ago that's been really, really bad in terms of doctor abundance.

And over and over again, I just saw in clean energy and housing and healthcare, this really has been like the century of manufactured scarcity, scarcity that we didn't deserve. And so I thought what we need to answer this is an abundance agenda.

And over and over again, I just saw in clean energy and housing and healthcare, this really has been like the century of manufactured scarcity, scarcity that we didn't deserve. And so I thought what we need to answer this is an abundance agenda.

And over and over again, I just saw in clean energy and housing and healthcare, this really has been like the century of manufactured scarcity, scarcity that we didn't deserve. And so I thought what we need to answer this is an abundance agenda.

We need a movement that combines, say, elements of liberalism with the sort of fervor for national greatness on the right with this sense that libertarians have of trying to find bad rules that exist in the world and pull them out. So I call it The Abundance Agenda. And yeah, long story short, Ezra Klein and I knew each other. He reached out. He said, I'm interested in these ideas.

We need a movement that combines, say, elements of liberalism with the sort of fervor for national greatness on the right with this sense that libertarians have of trying to find bad rules that exist in the world and pull them out. So I call it The Abundance Agenda. And yeah, long story short, Ezra Klein and I knew each other. He reached out. He said, I'm interested in these ideas.

We need a movement that combines, say, elements of liberalism with the sort of fervor for national greatness on the right with this sense that libertarians have of trying to find bad rules that exist in the world and pull them out. So I call it The Abundance Agenda. And yeah, long story short, Ezra Klein and I knew each other. He reached out. He said, I'm interested in these ideas.

Do you want to write a book together? And I said, yes. And I think right now the concept of abundance is really interesting because Donald Trump ran to, by his own term, to make America great again, to create a golden age for America.

Do you want to write a book together? And I said, yes. And I think right now the concept of abundance is really interesting because Donald Trump ran to, by his own term, to make America great again, to create a golden age for America.

Do you want to write a book together? And I said, yes. And I think right now the concept of abundance is really interesting because Donald Trump ran to, by his own term, to make America great again, to create a golden age for America.

But when I look at some of his policies, he says we don't have enough housing, so what we need is fewer immigrants, or we don't have enough manufacturing in this country, so we need less trade. Maybe he'll say we don't have, our debt is a big problem, so we need to spend less on healthcare. And it just kind of seems to me like he has this less is less mentality.

But when I look at some of his policies, he says we don't have enough housing, so what we need is fewer immigrants, or we don't have enough manufacturing in this country, so we need less trade. Maybe he'll say we don't have, our debt is a big problem, so we need to spend less on healthcare. And it just kind of seems to me like he has this less is less mentality.

But when I look at some of his policies, he says we don't have enough housing, so what we need is fewer immigrants, or we don't have enough manufacturing in this country, so we need less trade. Maybe he'll say we don't have, our debt is a big problem, so we need to spend less on healthcare. And it just kind of seems to me like he has this less is less mentality.

And, you know, against that, juxtaposed to that, I think it's really interesting to think about liberals becoming a movement of more is more, right? A movement of abundance. And so that's where the idea came from. And that's how I sort of see it clicking into the news cycle today.

And, you know, against that, juxtaposed to that, I think it's really interesting to think about liberals becoming a movement of more is more, right? A movement of abundance. And so that's where the idea came from. And that's how I sort of see it clicking into the news cycle today.

And, you know, against that, juxtaposed to that, I think it's really interesting to think about liberals becoming a movement of more is more, right? A movement of abundance. And so that's where the idea came from. And that's how I sort of see it clicking into the news cycle today.

We did not. No, we saw each other for a total of like maybe 11 hours in person.

We did not. No, we saw each other for a total of like maybe 11 hours in person.

We did not. No, we saw each other for a total of like maybe 11 hours in person.