Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Most big technical breakthroughs, no matter how beneficial, do cause a lot of disruption and pain in select areas. A miracle technology delivering unlimited cheap clean energy would wreck tons of industries and jobs. So “institutions” don’t really work to encourage it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 10, 2020 Hibernated

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This is an interesting thread. I guess my knee-jerk speculation is that the difference is basically everyone with any kind of influence in American society sincerely wants a breakthrough on the Covid-19 front. — PolitiTweet.org

One of the most valuable things anyone can do is work on this problem: how do we change our institutions to make 'v… https://t.co/Svp3YgbkCS

Posted Nov. 10, 2020 Hibernated

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We had a bit of partisan bickering around vaccine development but fundamentally all the stakeholders want a vaccine; even the executives and workers at the internet companies who’ve benefitted from the pandemic on a personal level want to see a vaccine. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 10, 2020 Hibernated