Matthew Meyers
@Matthew_Meyers5
Building the Abundance policy agenda with the @NiskanenCenter
If we want abundance to define the next era of politics, we will answers for why our communities feel disconnected, why the world doesn't make sense to people anymore, and why the American dream is slipping away This is a great essay to get that conversation started
As part of the Niskanen Center’s issue on Abundance, I argue it’s a mistake to make Abundance into a Democratic Party faction aiming to fix a broken political party. It should aim instead to become a movement about fixing what’s broken in America. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-is…
Policies that code as moderate and technocratic often achieve a lot more than “radical” ones
🔴The $100B debt plan exceeds the debt cap & only nets 200k homes 🟢"Interrogating Jersey City upzoning" is free, yet easily yields 200k homes 🔴Free buses risk Nassau-style "transit apartheid" & wrong relative price (MC_train_UPT<MC_bus_UPT) 🟢PoP brings all-door boarding speed…
Abundance should be about rebuilding trust and creating better systems under which every American can thrive!
As part of the Niskanen Center’s issue on Abundance, I argue it’s a mistake to make Abundance into a Democratic Party faction aiming to fix a broken political party. It should aim instead to become a movement about fixing what’s broken in America. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-is…
I think this was the right take at the time and is mostly still true, but we shouldn't resign ourselves to people prioritizing culture wars over our ability to build forever Persuasion can work and priorities can change. We're already seeing the tide go in abundance's direction
Good time to re-up this from @ThomasHochman
A lot of people are blaming AI for grads’ poor outcomes, but I find the evidence for this claim is surprisingly thin. Excited to release a new analysis w/ @employamerica on the labor market performance of recent college grads. 🧵
Important line: “Material prosperity—the good job, suburban house, and two Fords—is only half of the American Dream. The other half is dignity, meaning, opportunity, agency, self-determination, and respect. America is meant to be a land of limitless mobility” @frankjdistefano
Keep your eye on Hypertext for six great essays about abundance over the next two weeks! We will hear from @mattyglesias, @frankjdistefano, @CSElmendorf, @ProfSchleich, @henrymjtonks, and @OliviaWKosloff on how we should think about partisan politics and ideological factions 🧵
Our next era of politics will be defined by building institutions worthy of trust For @NiskanenCenter's Hypertext, I'm curating essays about how Abundance's attack on growth control, broken government, and stalled progress can be part of this mission DM if you are interested!
Hypertext—Niskanen’s intellectual journal—is turning two! We launched it to tackle one big question: How do we make America’s institutions work for the 21st century? Now we’re sharpening that mission 🧵