I argued that this was one reason for the social unrest of the 2010s, as legions of frustrated smart people spent their energy and extra time attacking the American system they felt had jilted them — and applying ideas they had learned in academia to modern American politics via social media.
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The fact that healthcare is 18% of GDP and people are embarrassed by that, what it tells me is that we have a priority problem in this country, not a spending problem. If we could actually deliver value in healthcare, I'd want it to be 50% of GDP. I want the majority of our most talented people working on the most important problems, which is extending the quality and length of human life.
Zach Reitano — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
The Senate was really a very decided compromise. And it was the other half of the compromise that we think of as the three-fifths clause, which grants enormous political power to the southern states and proportionate representation. Because every slave would count as three-fifths of a person, which is just such a shocking thing to put into a Constitution.
Jill Lepore — Fresh Air
The algorithmic nature of social media feeds has changed everything. the ability for everyone to remain siloed and in their own little celebrity bubbles, whether it's music, sports, movies, whatever, politics, it's so easy to tune out anything that is not being served to you. And because of that, there are more opportunities for people to become famous across the spectrum, but there's also more opportunities for you to feel at a loss.
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