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by finite_jest
1680 days ago
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The article utterly sucks. It's essentially a clickbaity rendition of the banal rant about American consumerism. The arguments are poorly constructed, even when there is a point to be made. The sentence "Americans haven't always acted like this. We've entered an age of overabundance." is followed by a a graph showing that Americans consumed more than major European countries at least since 1990. (And I don't think that graph is purchasing power parity adjusted) Apart from the confusing graph, most of the numbers in the article don't have a corresponding European version for comparison. What has happened to the Manhattan Institute? I kinda thought their senior fellows were better than this. |
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