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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jerome Powell and the Fed Are Still Struggling to Understand a Crazy Economy Hit by the Pandemic and War</strong> - The models that economists have long relied on to analyze inflation have broken down since the coronavirus pandemic began. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/jerome-powell-and-the-fed-are-still-struggling-to-understand-a-crazy-economy-hit-by-the-pandemic-and-war">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How the Federalist Society Won</strong> - The conservative legal movement was pivotal in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. But does it have any control over what happens next? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/how-the-federalist-society-won">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Much Damage Are the January 6th Hearings Doing to Trump?</strong> - Even as Republican support for another Trump Presidential bid appears to be slipping, he can’t be counted out. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-much-damage-are-the-january-6th-hearings-doing-to-trump">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Juror Explains Why a C.I.A. Hacker Was Convicted</strong> - In a retrial, prosecutors made a persuasive case that Joshua Schulte had leaked hacking tools as an act of petty revenge against agency colleagues. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-juror-explains-why-a-cia-hacker-was-convicted">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pope Francis’s “Penitential Pilgrimage” to Canada’s Indigenous Communities</strong> - Papal acknowledgment of the Church’s transgressions is relatively new, but Francis has tried to make it central to the job. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pope-franciss-penitential-pilgrimage-to-canadas-indigenous-communities">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Ron Howard’s movie about the Thai cave rescue isn’t the Hollywood melodrama I expected</strong> -
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<img alt="A man in a caving helmet looks worried." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/nvpv0LAvnt4HfDi5La9az-9AqRs=/234x0:1167x700/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71177927/Thirteen_Lives_Viggo_Mortensen.0.jpg"/>
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Viggo Mortensen in <em>Thirteen Lives</em>. | MGM
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How Thirteen Lives avoids the problems of other movies that are ripped from recent headlines.
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It’s distressing — and far too simple — to imagine a terrible version of <em>Thirteen Lives</em>.
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This imaginary, overly Hollywoodized version, scored to nonstop swoony music, would center on a middle-aged English cave diver, one of the volunteers who flew to northern Thailand in 2018 to help rescue a dozen young soccer players and their coach from the <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/7/5/17532464/thai-soccer-team-cave-rescue-diving-monsoon">Tham Luang cave</a>. We’d get a great deal of his backstory before we dove into the action. His motivation would be laboriously constructed through some kind of flashback to his own soccer-loving youth. We’d spend several scenes with his estranged wife and child, both of whom he loves but doesn’t see enough. (This would all be heightened to make sure the audience knew the <em>real</em> stakes of the operation.) All of the Thai characters would go unnamed, props supporting the Englishman’s archetypal hero’s journey. And in the end, the ordeal would serve as a valuable character development lesson for the diver, who would have an epiphany during the experience.
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Oh, and over the credits, we’d see pictures of the “real” people next to the actors who played them. Of course.
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Thank God that’s not the movie Ron Howard made. The cinematic potential of the real-life rescue was apparent from the start. The boys and their coach had barely returned home before an entire swarm of projects were announced, ready to tell of their harrowing rescue. A mere three days after the last of the group were rescued, <a href="https://press.discovery.com/us/dsc/programs/operation-thai-cave-rescue/">a made-for-TV documentary called <em>Operation Thai Cave Rescue</em></a> aired on the Discovery Channel.<em> </em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-produce-series-thai-cave-rescue-1193241/">A scripted Netflix miniseries</a> was announced. <em>Crazy Rich Asians</em> and <em>In the Heights</em> director Jon M. Chu was attached to another production. In 2019, the Thai film <em>The Cave</em> was released, directed by Thai-Irish director Tom Waller. Last year’s documentary <em>The Rescue</em>, from the directors of the Oscar-winning <em>Free Solo</em>, nabbed a handful of awards. Even PureFlix, the company that brought us <em>God’s Not Dead</em> and other evangelical content, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/thai-cave-rescue-become-film-gods-not-dead-producers-1126216/">planned to take a crack at it</a>.
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You could have predicted the rush, I guess, since it’s a given that very recent news — <a href="https://www.vox.com/22979866/bad-vegan-netflix-inventing-anna-dropout-scammer">cons and scams</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/9/28/13057448/deepwater-horizon%E2%80%94review-bp-oil-rig-disaster-mark-wahlberg">disasters</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/21/14005804/patriots-day-review-mark-wahlberg-michelle-monaghan-peter-berg-tsarnaev">acts of heroism</a> — gets rapidly turned into movies and miniseries. Strike while the headline is hot, the better to capture an audience with a short attention span.
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As I noted when <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/21/14005804/patriots-day-review-mark-wahlberg-michelle-monaghan-peter-berg-tsarnaev">writing about <em>Patriots Day</em></a> — starring Mark Wahlberg as a beat cop trying to foil the very real bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon — there can be a real ick factor in rushing stories to the screen. “By seeing this kind of story in the context of ultimately triumphalist entertainment, we risk seeing every tragic event, every terrorist activity, as just more fodder for big-screen storytelling (as it already is on cable news networks), rather than as part of a larger picture,” I wrote. From the distance of history, we can start to see the bigger picture.
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To their immense credit, Howard and writer William Nicholson, working from a story by Nicholson and Don MacPherson, have managed to steer away from those inclinations almost entirely. <em>Thirteen Lives</em> is much more subdued, even restrained. That’s not to say you can’t feel the Hollywoodized version struggling to push through in spots — there are a few too many shots of a statue of a goddess outside the cave — but <em>Thirteen Lives</em> keeps its focus on the massive collaborative effort required to rescue the boys, and their families’ grief and struggle to keep hope alive.
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<img alt="A group of men wearing caving helmets stand near a boy." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/y68OXA2FJ0Aaya21MJMpWQANNR0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23888857/thirteen_lives_TL_04257_RC_rgb.jpg"/> <cite>Vince Valitutti/MGM</cite>
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Thira Chutikul, Popetorn Soonthornyanakij, Joel Edgerton, Colin Farrell, and Viggo Mortensen in <em>Thirteen Lives.</em>
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It helps that the story itself sidesteps a lot of the problems with similar recent-history dramas. All of the trapped boys were rescued; just one man died during the rescue and another shortly after, both clear heroes; the story presents a model for volunteerism, self-sacrifice, and cooperation across borders. The only villain is the rising water in the cave. It’s exactly the kind of news event that translates to film beautifully, and without the ethical wickets that similar tales of trauma and heroism can present.
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And Howard knows how to make a tale thrilling even when you already know how the story ends. (This is the director of <em>Apollo 13</em>, after all.) <em>Thirteen Lives</em> requires moving from grand locations like the massive crowd of media, volunteers, and families outside the cave (reminiscent of Billy Wilder’s 1951 <em>Ace in the Hole</em>, but without the cynicism) to the tightest of tight spots, underwater caves so narrow a man’s shoulders can barely fit through. There are local people who gather, supervised by Thai water engineer Thanet Natisri (Nophand Boonyai), to divert water onto rice paddies, helping save lives but destroying their crop. The governor of the area, Narongsak Osottanakorn (Sahajak Boonthanakit), must navigate communicating with the public while knowing that if anything goes wrong, it’s his fault.
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If you’ve seen <em>The Rescue</em>, you know a key part of the story involves elite (but amateur) cave divers who arrive from the UK and Australia to find and retrieve the team, and this is the most Hollywood part of the film. They’re played by Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen, and Joel Edgerton, globally recognizable faces who, by virtue of their fame, loom larger than life once they arrive on screen. But their roles are pulled back to what’s necessary, and are often our emotional bridge into the story, since they were first to find the boys in the cave and had to invent the dangerous plan to bring them out.
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By the end of the story, the film’s aims are clear: to show what an absolute miracle the rescue was, and to honor the extraordinary cooperation and selflessness of those who came to help. Yes, that’s inspirational. But it also quietly counters a Hollywood history besotted with lone rangers and mavericks. Everyone matters.
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None of which, in the end, answers the question that lingered with me after the film ended. Why <em>this </em>story? Why did it capture such broad attention? The average person, half a century ago, might never have known about a dozen junior soccer players and their coach stranded in a Thai cave. The internet and 24-7 media change the context, but in a world full of stories of peril and woe, this one caught our imaginations. Why this one?
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<em>Thirteen Lives</em> isn’t aiming to answer this question, but I have a guess. Our world is deeply politicized, by which I mean that everything is seen through a political lens, the fault of some party or another. American observers are tempted to map everything onto our particular partisan bugaboos. And you could probably find a political lens to slap on top of this story.
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But <em>Thirteen Lives</em> resists those temptations, mostly because of its urgency, its focus on rescuing children, and, perhaps most mightily, because it taps into something primal and organic about human life on earth. It’s a story of man against nature, one in which nature is almost impossible to control — like a war tale, but with a faceless enemy. The success of the operation is the story of barely managing to outwit a natural world that’s indifferent to whether we live or die.
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The team’s ordeal <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/climate/climate-change-thailand-floods.html">likely has less to do</a> with climate change than bad luck. But constant threats from the natural world are increasingly the experience of people around the world who encounter rising waters, destructive heat waves, harsh wildfires, and other extreme conditions. And that makes me wonder if <em>Thirteen Lives</em> is a glimpse into the kind of movie that could slip past audience defenses and remind us of the great responsibility we bear one another in the face of catastrophe. We live on a planet together, after all. We owe it to one another, and ourselves, to take care of each other.
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Thirteen Lives <em>opens in theaters on July 29 and begins streaming on Amazon Prime on August 5.</em>
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<li><strong>Bully your rich friends into commissioning more art</strong> -
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<img alt="A portion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling showing God and Adam reaching toward one another." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zbivQrWwzDzSsjEi84OyqfFpj0o=/3x0:4727x3543/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71177989/GettyImages_1309914466.0.jpg"/>
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I’m not saying the next “Creation of Adam” will be commissioned by some 27-year-old tech bro, but I’m not <em>not</em> saying that. | Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images
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The next status symbol for newly wealthy young people should be funding a weird little off-Broadway play.
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For millennia, societies have attempted to solve the problem of how to pay their artists, and for much of that history, this has been the province of the wealthy. At times, that power has belonged to institutions — the <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-happened-catholic-churchs-art-patronage">Catholic Church</a> in the Middle Ages, for instance, or arts foundations with large trusts — or of <a href="https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/patrons-and-artists-in-late-15th-century-florence.html">newly moneyed merchant classes</a>, as in the Italian Renaissance. Governments use taxpayer dollars to fund public art, such as the <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/public-works-art-project-selected-administrative-and-business-records-9772#:~:text=The%20Public%20Works%20of%20Art%20Project%20(PWAP)%2C%20the%20first,of%20non%2Dfederal%20public%20buildings.">Public Works of Art Project</a> as part of FDR’s New Deal, or, say, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/15/sesame-street-corporate-deals-have-upset-fans-they-keep-show-alive/">Sesame Street</a>. Over the past decade, however, that power has increasingly transferred to a radically different kind of curator: the algorithm.
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Artists who make money on social media — and there is a <a href="https://newsdirect.com/news/first-ever-sizing-study-reveals-11-5-million-americans-participate-in-the-creator-economy-earning-money-from-platforms-like-youtube-tiktok-and-instagram-252377776?category=Professional%20Services">growing number of them</a> — rely on corporately owned platforms for exposure, for sponsorship deals, and for commissions. It’s no secret, though, that the vast majority don’t make enough to live on from their craft alone, be it fine art, music, filmmaking, writing, photography, dance, theater, or, if we’re willing to categorize the nebulous designation of “content creation” as an art form, influencing. Therein lies a problem: Artists and creators who are the most likely to succeed in this system are the ones with the most mass appeal, which, to an algorithm, likely means that they appeal to viewers’ basest, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/5/18/22440937/tiktok-addison-rae-bella-poarch-build-a-bitch-charli-damelio-mediocrity">lowest common denominator impulses of what human beings want to look at</a>. In short, the kind of art that algorithms pick for us usually isn’t very good.
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So what’s a society to do? Kate Compton, a futurist and computer science professor at Northwestern University, posited a solution earlier this summer: “Someone with a FAANG [Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google] salary could literally commission their own opera once per year, so we should do that,” she began in a <a href="https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1534660494577000448">now-viral Twitter thread</a>. “The Renaissance was a notable cultural era not because of good marble or new paint but because a bunch of newly-rich Florentine wool merchants discovered Spite Patronage” (more on that in a minute).
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The idea that the wealthy can and should fund the arts is not new. What is new is the sheer number of wealthy people we have. The US has one of the <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-inequality-debate#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20the%20top%2010,percent%20of%20wealth%20in%202021.">highest rates of wealth and income inequality</a> of all developed nations; it has more billionaires than any other (<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardjchang/2022/04/05/the-countries-with-the-most-billionaires-2022/?sh=4c1680ccb57e">735 of them</a>), a class that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/business/oxfam-pandemic-davos-billionaires/index.html">added $5 trillion</a> to its wealth — more than the previous 14 years combined — during the first 18 months of the pandemic. The donor class, or ultra one percenters who spend a sizable portion of their income in donations to philanthropic and arts foundations (and often receive <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/3/20840955/charitable-deduction-tax-rich-billionaire-philanthropy">massive tax benefits in the process</a>), is growing, and with a political system that seems <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/31/why-bidens-billionaire-minimum-income-tax-may-be-a-tough-sell.html">unlikely to successfully levy meaningful new taxes</a> on billionaires, the least that rich people can do is spend some of it on things that are not <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts">superyachts</a>.
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Many people, ultrarich or otherwise, already do this. In fact, in exposing so many people to each other in such a short period of time, social media and merchant platforms like Etsy have allowed many designers, painters, and other craftspeople to make a living by selling their wares to their followers. But while older wealthy people have long histories of donating to big arts endowments that do the legwork of finding artists to grant money for them, it’s easy to imagine newly rich millennial and Gen Z tech and finance workers opting for flashier ways to support the arts: Their name listed as an executive producer on a film or play, or the ability to shape the art itself.
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Perhaps Compton’s most compelling point is that there is a long history of what she calls “spite patronage,” or rich people paying for works of art that flatter them in comparison to their professional nemeses. The art doesn’t even have to be all that innovative or meaningful in itself, it just has to be seen and displayed. “One issue is that y’all degenerates <em>are</em> paying for full body furry commissions (good for you!) but keeping it private. That’s no way to create cultural impact,” she writes. “Rent a gallery and host an art show; buy a chapel and have them paint a ceiling; sculpt it in marble on your mausoleum. Rich people realizing that Great Artists can be rented for pennies + proudly displaying both revenge and cringe commissions = world-changing art movement.”
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There are some obvious downsides here. For one, it’s never a good sign when a society relies on the ultrarich to shoulder a responsibility better suited for an institution that answers to its citizens (like, say, the government). Unfortunately, one of the aftereffects of 40 years of tax breaks for corporations and government budget cuts is that <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/10/28/22751022/billionaire-tax-elon-musk-build-back-better">right now, we do</a>. As my colleague Whizy Kim argues, tech billionaires have helped to elect Joe Biden in the name of democracy, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23274476/abortion-rights-billionaire-donors">have the potential ability to do the same for abortion rights</a>. Second, for artists without an agent or manager to handle business dealings for them, it’s easy to imagine scenarios where they’re paid unfairly or otherwise exploited by the inherent power dynamic at play.
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But I’d also argue that wealthy arts patrons could commission art that is at least slightly more interesting than what an algorithm might surface, while also giving artists more freedom to create works that don’t necessarily cater to social media platforms’ demands. “The winner-take-all dynamics of this algorithmically optimized stream will generate a few winners — superstar influencers whose every post will be served to millions of users,” <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rise-of-the-internets-creative-middle-class">writes Cal Newport</a> in his piece on whether the internet can support creative work with the “1,000 True Fans” theory.
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He’s talking about content creators, or the <a href="https://newsdirect.com/news/first-ever-sizing-study-reveals-11-5-million-americans-participate-in-the-creator-economy-earning-money-from-platforms-like-youtube-tiktok-and-instagram-252377776?category=Professional%20Services">7.1 million Americans</a> who earned money on social media platforms in 2021. This increasingly crowded field — it is at least three times more than the number of artists or lawyers or doctors or farmers or military members, <a href="https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/legislation-policy/naappd/artists-in-the-us-workforce-2006-2020#:~:text=Summary%3A,2019%20to%2010.3%25%20in%202020.">according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> — can’t survive if it continues to rely on, say, $5 monthly donations from <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22899585/influencer-rate-calculator-pay-gap-brand-deals-sponsorships">Patreon subscriptions or small-time brand deals</a>. And if creators keep having to bend their content to what the algorithm demands of them, no one’s going to want to pay for it anyway. As the mother of Don Draper’s second wife tells her in season five of <em>Mad Men</em>: “Not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world couldn’t support that many ballerinas.”
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By creating a culture of commissions en masse among wealthy young people, perhaps it could — or at least it could widen the pool of artists making livable wages. Inequality is terrible, inflation is bad, and whether or not we’re due for a recession, it <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2022/6/8/23158436/economy-inflation-recession-odds-stock-market">certainly feels like we are</a>. But there are winners in this economy, and for now, one way the creatively inclined have-nots can use it to our advantage is by bullying our rich friends into funding some weird art. Plus, imagine being some rich guy and having the option to commission an off-Broadway show about literally anything you want, whenever you want! Imagine <em>not</em> doing that!
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<li><strong>Young Americans are sticking close to their hometowns</strong> -
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80 percent of young adults still live within 100 miles of their home as teenagers.
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In my family, moving long distances is the norm.
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My mother was born and raised in Honolulu, where her grandmother had moved during the Great Depression from a sleepy upstate New York town on Lake Ontario. (You can read all about it in <a href="https://www.rootstockpublishing.com/rootstock-books/hawaii-calls">a novel my mom just published.</a>) As adults, she and my dad left Hawaii for, of all places, New Hampshire, where my brother and I grew up.
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(“Why would you leave paradise for the frozen reaches of New Hampshire?” one might ask. Don’t worry, Dan and I asked this many, many times as children.)
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My parents met in Hawaii, but my dad was born in France; his dad, born in North Dakota, was a career Army officer, and so my dad and my aunts and uncles grew up everywhere from France to Belgium to San Francisco to Germany to Honolulu.
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Our family is a somewhat extreme case, but if you inhabit a certain class position in the United States, this kind of mobility can seem normal. People grow up in one place, but then they go to universities a few hundred or thousand miles away, before moving on to a big city to find work.
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But it’s not the norm. <a href="https://policyimpacts.org/research/66/the-radius-of-opportunity:-evidence-from-migration-and-local-labor-markets">A new paper</a> by Harvard’s Ben Sprung-Keyser and Nathaniel Hendren, and the Census Bureau’s Sonya Porter, takes an in-depth look at young adults leaving home. The big takeaway is … they do not.
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At age 26, the authors find, 30 percent of Americans live in the census tract they lived in at 16. Fifty-eight percent live less than 10 miles away;<strong> </strong>80 percent live less than 100 miles away; 90 percent live less than 500 miles away. Census tracts are <em>tiny</em>, hyper-local designations, with populations between 1,200 and 8,000 each; mine is only 0.2 square miles in area. The small town where I grew up has <em>three</em> tracts within it. Staying within your tract is an extreme level of residential stasis, but 30 percent of young adults do just that. By contrast, huge leaps, like my great-grandmother’s from New York to Honolulu or my parents’ from Honolulu to New Hampshire, are extremely uncommon.
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As the demographers and sociologists reading this are likely to point out, the finding that <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/15/15757708/hometown-stay-leave">people mostly stay put</a> is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html">not new</a>. Indeed, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/despite-the-pandemic-narrative-americans-are-moving-at-historically-low-rates/">residential mobility inside the US has been cratering</a> for years, and kept falling even during the pandemic, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/the-truth-about-american-migration-during-covid">despite narratives about city residents fleeing</a>.
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Where did you come from, where did you go?
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While Sprung-Keyser, Hendren, and Porter aren’t the first to find low levels of mobility, the granularity of their data is impressive. They look at “commuting zones,” or collections of cities and towns that make up a regional labor market. For instance, the New York zone includes Long Island and Westchester County, but not farther-away cities like Newark or Poughkeepsie. The authors have data on what share of young adults leave and where they leave for.
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You can <a href="https://migrationpatterns.org/">explore the data yourself here</a>; it turns out that only 1 percent of people from where I grew up move to DC, like I did, which still makes it the third-most-common out-of-state destination after Boston and New York.
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The data covers young adults born between 1984 and 1992 — that is, millennials. But there are some indications that the level of residential stasis the authors find is persisting among even younger adults. A recent survey from the personal finance site Credit Karma estimated that <a href="https://www.creditkarma.com/about/commentary/cost-of-living-crisis-spurs-failure-to-launch-among-gen-z">29 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 live at home</a> with their parents or other relatives; this phenomenon surged during the pandemic, <a href="https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/after-brief-return-young-adults-quick-move-out-parents-homes-pandemic-continues">even among people in that age group not enrolled in colleges or universities</a>, before waning as the country reopened.
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As you might expect, migration patterns depend a lot on race and income. Black young adults move 60 miles less, on average, than white young adults, and children of the top 1 percent of the income distribution move 325 miles on average, compared to just 160 miles for those whose parents were in the 25th percentile of income. This might seem surprising; there are diminishing returns to income (going from $30,000 to $50,000 in earnings is much more meaningful than going from $100,000 to $120,000), meaning there might be less reason for high-income people to move in search of additional wages. But children of high-income families still move substantially more, and farther, than children of low-income families.
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One of the more interesting subgroups the paper examines is Black children of relatively affluent backgrounds. Black young adults from high-income families, the authors find, are driving the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-great-migration-black-americans-return-to-the-south-1965-2000/">“new great migration”</a> into <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/14/black-migration-south/">Southern cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston</a>; they are 10 times more likely than Black children of low-income families to move to DC.
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The data also lets the paper’s authors measure how people’s movements are influenced by job opportunities. If wages suddenly rise in one region, you’d expect more people to move there — but <em>how many</em> people would you expect to move? This measure is called the elasticity of migration.
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The surprising takeaway: Even big changes in average wages don’t spur much movement. The authors consider a shock to a particular commuting zone that increases regional wages by $1,600 a year, which is quite large, especially for people in low-wage industries. Such a shock, they find, would lead more people to move to the area … but in the end, its population would only grow by about 1 percent.
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High-income and white or Asian young adults are more sensitive to these regional changes in wages, moving at higher rates in response to them than low-income and/or Black and Latino young adults. And a lot depends on local housing markets. Jurisdictions that allow for increased housing supply in response to new demand, the authors find, see more of an influx when wages there rise than jurisdictions (like, say, San Francisco) that <a href="https://www.vox.com/a/homeless-san-francisco-tech-boom">restricted housing supply growth</a> even as their economies boomed.
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Do we need to get moving?
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What, if any, policy implications does this work have?
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One is that policies that boost the labor market of specific places provide the most benefit <em>to those places</em>, not to migrants who might be attracted to them. If a $1,600 wage bump only grows a city’s population by 1 percent, Sprung-Keyser told me in a phone interview, that implies that “99 percent of people benefiting were going to be in that city regardless.”
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Now, I don’t know of the existence of “place-based policies” meant to improve job opportunities and wages in a particular city or region (say, the Rust Belt or Appalachia) that actually work, or that we have good evidence of effectiveness for. But this research implies that if policymakers hit on plans that could, for instance, revive the labor market in Detroit, they don’t need to worry about migrants soaking up all the gains. The main winners would be Detroiters.
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The bigger question raised by the paper is whether Americans are moving <em>enough</em>. There are big advantages to moving: In <a href="https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/newmto/">previous work with Raj Chetty and Lawrence Katz</a>, Hendren found that public housing recipients who moved to lower-poverty areas as young children earned hundreds of thousands of dollars more over their lifetimes compared to those staying in high-poverty areas. Encouraging moves like that could make people durably better off. Indeed, we have extensive <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/06/14/global-migration-can-be-a-potent-tool-in-the-fight-to-end-poverty-across-the-world-new-report">evidence about <em>international</em> migration</a> suggesting that it’s a <a href="https://nonprofitchronicles.com/2017/02/27/migration-the-oldest-and-most-effective-anti-poverty-program/">powerful tool for reducing poverty</a>.
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But there are major barriers to mobility, even within the US. Housing policy is the principal one, especially for low-income workers. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119017300591">Economists Daniel Shoag and Peter Ganong</a> note that in 1960, after adjusting for housing costs, wages in New York were 39 percent higher for lawyers, and 70 percent higher for janitors, than they were in the Deep South states like Alabama or Mississippi. By 2010, wages in New York were still 39 percent higher for lawyers — but were 7 percent lower for janitors.
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Tellingly, the only reason janitors were worse off in New York was housing costs; they earned more, in actual dollars, than janitors in the South, but it all got eaten up by rent. Allowing for more apartment construction in cities (<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2022/01/31/new-yorks-ideas-for-zoning-reform-offer-many-paths-to-tackling-the-housing-crisis/">including, yes, New York City</a>, which is <a href="https://cbcny.org/research/strategies-boost-housing-production-new-york-city-metropolitan-area">building housing at much too slow a pace</a>) would lower rents and allow more people to move for higher wages.
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That said, the phenomenon described in Sprung-Keyser, Hendren, and Porter’s paper can’t be entirely explained by barriers to housing in high-wage cities. Many people simply want to stay where they were raised, even though they could earn more money elsewhere. That won’t change even if rents in big cities were to suddenly become affordable.
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We shouldn’t put up barriers to movement for people who want to move. The trickier question for me is how to help people who simply do not want to leave, even if they’re in a struggling area. We don’t have good “place-based policies” to revive such areas. But the stubborn homeboundedness of American citizens means we probably should develop some.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Manchester United gets defence boost, signs Lisandro Martinez from Ajax for €57 million</strong> - Ajax had reached an agreement with Manchester United earlier this month with Lisandro Martinez moving for an initial fee of €57.37 million and a further €10 million of potential add-ons included</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities</strong> - This modular malware framework for Linux has gone undocumented until now. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1869595">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>A police man came up to me with a sniffer dog and said, "This dog tells me you’re on drugs…..’’</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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It was an older woman driving. He asks her why she was driving slow.
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She says - “I saw a sign that said I-15, so I thought the speed limit was 15 mph”
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Officer - “That is the sign for the Interstate 15. The speed limit is 70 mph on this road”
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Then he notices 3 other older ladies in the back seat whose faces were white as a sheet.
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He asks the driver whats wrong.
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Her - “Oh, we just came off I-215”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/payne344"> /u/payne344 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/w8ub99/police_pulls_over_a_car_driving_15_mph_in_a_70/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/w8ub99/police_pulls_over_a_car_driving_15_mph_in_a_70/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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They both worship cheeses
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I’m hooked
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