I'm a cascadian abundist. All our brudges should have nuclear reactors on them

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Why is it "Cascadian" though? I'm not complaining, but I also don't exactly see Seattle, Vancouver, PDX as ideal models of urban density and transit. We are just kind of lucky to have a lot of hydropower already.

my favorite bit is how the moderate-abundance synthesis doesn't work because the zero-sum and low-trust scarcity peasants that make up the midwestern swing vote *hate* the idea of positive sum economics with the fury of a million suns

They probably hate it because that's what they were told about NAFTA and they didn't get the more positive side of that positive sum.

I mean yeah zero-sum thinking is associated with higher support for redistribution (but framed as taking-from-them-to-give-us), support for affirmative action among people of color, and *vehement* opposition to trade and immigration

They did though!

Well it wasn't positive enough for them. Also didn't it hollow out the Midwestern industrial base in favor of a service economy on the coasts, or am I too Michael Moore brained?

My thesis is that the transition to a service economy was a comparative loser for the Midwest vis a vis other regions of the US, but it might have been the southern nonunion bastards stealing our industry that was really to blame, I don't know.

NAFTA is not the reason the Midwestern industrial base declined. Automation and cheaper more modern plants elsewhere (often the South) were. The decline predates NAFTA.

I'd like you to convince my UAW refuses-to-buy-an-import friend that it wasn't NAFTA's fault, and for that matter the whole UAW, and for that matter the entire United States. Definitely it was a good scapegoat.

Yep. It's not reality. But it makes for a good story. And good stories win.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance vibes.

Textiles, an industry with less national cultural cachet, suffered the same fate.

Comparative advantage comes for us all.

And you can't improve cities without being “hostile” to cars

It doesn't work because car-centric suburbs inherently undermine cities by existing, non-solar is enormously more expensive, right-wing views on immigration cut directly against everything good, and right-wing views on crime are an attempt to occupy cities.

also "moderate abundance" is oxymoronic. if you have moderate abundance, then you don't have abundance. you just have a decent amount of stuff

That’s why red plenty does back to the countryside (sending cadres with free solar panels and spices to bumfuckia)

“Improve government so it becomes capable of ambitious”

I wrote an entire paper on doing cascadian energy planning so I don’t agree

maybe sprinkle in some cascadian abundance too

red plenty's train is literally an italian frecciarossa. ai fail

I notice that the YIMBYs like using AI. SIGH.

Their description of Cascadian Abundance describes me to a T

I'm bouncing all around the bottom left and upper right, but definitely not the bottom right.

Sharon the red

Moderate synthesis and dark abundance can go straight back to the fires of Mount Doom.