Kyla Scanlon
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1,192 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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And so I think here you have to optimize for what you want.
Like if you want to buy a house right away, it's not the smart thing to move immediately to a big city.
It's just not going to happen unless you have generational wealth.
And I think the American dream has evolved really substantially for everybody because we consider buying a house the American dream, but it's gotten very expensive everywhere.
So even though this question says, like, should I stay in my small town and buy a house?
Like, those homes are still quite expensive too.
And there's something called Baumol's cost disease.
Have you heard about this?
Have you heard of Baumol's cost disease, Ed?
So I think it gives a lot of...
support to what this person is asking, where we've gotten really productive as a country over the past several decades.
We've gotten really good at producing goods cheaply because we did a lot of international trade.
And so goods have gotten a lot cheaper because we've gotten more productive at producing them, but it's much harder to get productive with services.
So you can't really automate a physician, but you can automate a car factory.
And so I think that has also really shifted the American dream where like the average American today has a ton of stuff.
Like most Americans have a lot of things.
But that, you know, more if you're thinking broadly speaking about buying that house, it's a little bit more difficult.
to achieve.
And so I think the American dream at one time was like accumulation of goods, buying the house, getting married, having kids, retiring.
Buying a lot of stuff is achievable, but the other half of it is not so achievable.
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