Nate Silver

But, like, we were talking about the kind of rise and peak of whatever you want to call wokeness, right?

But, like, but it feels very different four or five years out from that peak.

And, like, you know, I just wonder, anytime you're kind of, like, betting on a rising trend, we both have...

a lot of admiration for Zoran's political acumen, right?

Not trying to make an editorial statement.

But, like, maybe somebody copycats that and the second version doesn't hit in the same way.

You know what I mean?

It feels too forced.

It feels like, actually, you know, look, if I'm planning articles for the newsletter, the first breakout hit that you have is great on a particular topic, right?

The derivative of that often falls kind of flat, right?

There's a component to the way that now you go order McDonald's online or whatever.

Or you go to the kiosk, right?

And you get your little upgrades and stuff like that.

So there's something about the way that algorithmic models induce people to maybe spend more money than they were and create...

The economics term is, I guess, producer surplus, meaning they capture the profit, right?

I'm not Elizabeth Warren, oh, they're just being greedy, but people are getting smarter at how to extract money at everything from poor customers to rich customers, right?

So people feel like they're not getting this excess value that they might have before.

But yeah, obviously...

healthcare costs as the nation ages and housing costs.

America's always been obsessed with home ownership, right?