Derek Thompson

And so this is a book that's trying to nudge the Democratic Party back to what we think are, in a way, historically its roots. thinking about what Americans need and making it easier for government to act efficiently to provide them. And that really does, I think, begin with housing and energy.

And so this is a book that's trying to nudge the Democratic Party back to what we think are, in a way, historically its roots. thinking about what Americans need and making it easier for government to act efficiently to provide them. And that really does, I think, begin with housing and energy.

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There's certainly a lot of regulation that you wanna get out of the way. I mean, you look at California, for example, you were just giving a beautiful summary of just how important it is for people to be able to move next to economic opportunity. If you look at the number of houses that have been permitted in the state of California,

There's certainly a lot of regulation that you wanna get out of the way. I mean, you look at California, for example, you were just giving a beautiful summary of just how important it is for people to be able to move next to economic opportunity. If you look at the number of houses that have been permitted in the state of California,

There's certainly a lot of regulation that you wanna get out of the way. I mean, you look at California, for example, you were just giving a beautiful summary of just how important it is for people to be able to move next to economic opportunity. If you look at the number of houses that have been permitted in the state of California,

Over the last 40 years, it's basically just a squiggle line down. The tragedy here, just to put a really fine point on it, is that the city wasn't gated by geography or by destiny.

Over the last 40 years, it's basically just a squiggle line down. The tragedy here, just to put a really fine point on it, is that the city wasn't gated by geography or by destiny.

Over the last 40 years, it's basically just a squiggle line down. The tragedy here, just to put a really fine point on it, is that the city wasn't gated by geography or by destiny.

Yeah, yeah. Elijah Otis invented the elevator in like the 1850s. This is not exactly a breaking technology. We chose to do this. We wrote these laws. We, people, are filing these lawsuits. We, judges, are accepting these lawsuits and determining that this building can't be built.

Yeah, yeah. Elijah Otis invented the elevator in like the 1850s. This is not exactly a breaking technology. We chose to do this. We wrote these laws. We, people, are filing these lawsuits. We, judges, are accepting these lawsuits and determining that this building can't be built.

Yeah, yeah. Elijah Otis invented the elevator in like the 1850s. This is not exactly a breaking technology. We chose to do this. We wrote these laws. We, people, are filing these lawsuits. We, judges, are accepting these lawsuits and determining that this building can't be built.

This is entirely self-inflicted, and it's why over and over again in this book, we call it a manufactured scarcity, which is like a little bit of a funny term. How do you manufacture the absence of something? No, a manufactured scarcity means... You didn't have to do this. This is a human-made rule whose purposeful goal was to make it harder to add to the supply of something.

This is entirely self-inflicted, and it's why over and over again in this book, we call it a manufactured scarcity, which is like a little bit of a funny term. How do you manufacture the absence of something? No, a manufactured scarcity means... You didn't have to do this. This is a human-made rule whose purposeful goal was to make it harder to add to the supply of something.

This is entirely self-inflicted, and it's why over and over again in this book, we call it a manufactured scarcity, which is like a little bit of a funny term. How do you manufacture the absence of something? No, a manufactured scarcity means... You didn't have to do this. This is a human-made rule whose purposeful goal was to make it harder to add to the supply of something.