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A free 10k or a brand new 10k debt, my Monday looks surprisingly the same

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Unfortunately for us both, I don’t have it lying around

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Think you can find that post where I said poor people don’t deserve to change their lives?

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bsky.app/profile/spag...

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The data shows the opposite

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Some people are, yes. And we should target them with permanent sustainable programs.

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lol because I wouldn’t quit my job, I don’t need it?

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somebody could make a killing on Ossoff romantasy crossovers

returning to pre-pandemic baseline is a pretty decent illustration of the meaning of "life changing" as something close to permanent.

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how much money can i make with a tire shop that just replaces blown tesla roadster tires when they come crashing back to earth

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were they permanently lifted out of poverty?

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Lol, "I have a feeling that data doesn't say what you think it does." Audacious claim.

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I had rolled over to Medi-Cal for life reasons when we had my second daughter, also in Kaiser SoCal. Total cost? $0. That’s why I pay my taxes.

you don't often see a good "that's not how medians work" in the wild, super rare

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bsky.app/profile/spag...

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Gets us every time, because if the objective is to craft policy that improves that bottom decile, we need to know and understand it and figure out what works. "Everyone is poor, always has been, and always will be" does not yield results.

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try reading just a liiiiitle further. you'll make it. try a tylenol if you get a headache.

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like i said, lots of people replying to Matt to say "but it would change MY life." to which the response is, ok, but statistically not all of you are correct.

yes. personal economics are intrinsically personal, and involve thousands of individual decisions. in order to measure and understand them, we take them in the aggregate and do large scale studies to find out if windfalls are indeed life changing.

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the animated drunk arrests are awesome, i haven't seen one in a while

you're very late, you're gonna have to catch up.

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the guy replied to him. and matt, in his own mentions, offered an opinion. and then loons came out of the wood work to tell matt how wrong he was.

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the person who replied to him?

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No. That's just allowing people's overreactions to frame the debate. I talk about ship or law stuff on here all the time. I'm not going to do a throat clearing Intro to Civil Procedure or Dutton's Naval Shiphandling every time.

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160 cups? i'll clear that in 2 weeks

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but again, he used the term, and then pointed out that studies show that is indeed not life changing, and a thousand people replied: "RIP to the people in those studies, but I'm different"

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get out here @besttrousers.bsky.social, they're adjusting you for inflation. Real Matt Darling.

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essentially, disciplinary differences. and for some reason, the internet's need to forefront "personal experiences" over all disciplinary differences.

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which individuals did i say are wrong about their own lives?

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let's scroll to the top and look at the "individual experience" that Sky mentioned. That person's $500k medical debt was in fact not a medical debt at all, but on the internet, you're supposed to be sympathetic to the fake debt, not call that person a liar.

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here's what Matt was disagreeing with: "Let's not ignore that $30,000 is a lifechanging amount of money,"

because there are borderline infinite cases, you *have* to use medians and averages.

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invert your example. $30k is a life-changing amount of money" False, because it would not change Bezos' life.

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jesus. it's getting worse.