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1/ 🧵 Raising children is expensive, but my chapter in the @CatoInstitute's new Handbook on Affordability outlines specific policy changes that reduce costs for families with kids.
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
@chellivia
Managing Editor of @HumanProgress & @CatoInstitute Policy Analyst. @IWF Visiting Fellow. Author, Centers of Progress + Grim Old Days: https://t.co/6Vu4GdMBlL
Washington, DC Katılım Şubat 2010
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Provisional Data: U.S. Death Rate Fell to a Record Low in 2025 blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2026/07/0…
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Sharing a little perspective for those who complain about current times
Steven Pinker@sapinker
"The world most of our ancestors faced was in fact more gruesome than modern minds can fathom. From routine spousal and child abuse to famine-induced cannibalism and streets that doubled as open sewers, practically every aspect of existence was horrific." Chelsea Follett @chellivia describes The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days” humanprogress.org/the-grim-truth… via @HumanProgress
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Interesting fact about Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor: the work may have been inspired by the screams of a man who died on the wheel.
Michael Walsh@TheAmanuensis
And yet it managed to produce Homer, Dante, Tasso, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner.
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History sucked.
Steven Pinker@sapinker
"The world most of our ancestors faced was in fact more gruesome than modern minds can fathom. From routine spousal and child abuse to famine-induced cannibalism and streets that doubled as open sewers, practically every aspect of existence was horrific." Chelsea Follett @chellivia describes The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days” humanprogress.org/the-grim-truth… via @HumanProgress
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"The world most of our ancestors faced was in fact more gruesome than modern minds can fathom. From routine spousal and child abuse to famine-induced cannibalism and streets that doubled as open sewers, practically every aspect of existence was horrific." Chelsea Follett @chellivia describes The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days” humanprogress.org/the-grim-truth… via @HumanProgress
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A reminder that "slop" long predates AI. George Washington’s Farewell Address, announcing he would not seek a third term, first appeared in a newspaper in 1796 and was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet across the East Coast, with some editions featuring a hallucinated Shakespeare quote on the title page. An amusing historical fact courtesy of @FolgerLibrary.
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Government targets don't motivate people to have kids. It turns out, most people are more interested in starting a family in the pursuit of happiness. From a new @UNFPA survey of 108,000 young adults across 73 countries:
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Why have expectations risen even faster than living standards?
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
Food is much cheaper, relative to income, than it was 35 years ago. But the expectation gap is higher.
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Childcare doesn't need more subsidies. It needs less red tape. My latest via @dcexaminer. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…
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Anna Claire Flowers, Lyman Stone, Clara Piano and I argue that policies that expand the supply of childcare services (i.e., deregulation) would do probably alot more for much less.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Something I've never heard anyone say, but which seems true: If you want higher fertility rates, you should have lots of cultural depictions of MARRIED PARENTS HAVING SEX. A lot of people think having kids destroys your sex life, and this makes it less appealing.
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There's a P.G. Wodehouse story where the plot only works if strawberries in winter are hard to come by.
Chelsea Olivia Follett@chellivia
"Once upon a time, there was only one way to get your hands on a ripe strawberry in winter: be a member of the French royal court." Now they're a year-round staple in preschoolers' lunchboxes.
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@chellivia There's a Wodehouse story that centers entirely on a young man's quest to get strawberries for his beloved in winter.
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"Once upon a time, there was only one way to get your hands on a ripe strawberry in winter: be a member of the French royal court." Now they're a year-round staple in preschoolers' lunchboxes.
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The NRC's radiation protection framework is built on an assumption that treats any amount of radiation, no matter how small, as linearly dangerous. It was extrapolated from Hiroshima and Nagasaki data and applied to the normal operating doses of modern nuclear plants.
A growing body of research on nuclear workers and medical imagers finds little to no detectable harm at low doses. Idaho National Lab says revising the standard could meaningfully reduce costs and construction timelines. The NRC is about to consider doing exactly that.
c3newsmag.com/lnt-reform-nuc…
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@chellivia @scottlincicome Funny to think that living like a king is pretty much worse than the typical modern life today.
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Take my @HumanProgress colleague's poll! He's a psychologist and is trying to better understand how people think about problems of prosperity:
Adam Omary@AdamOmaryPhD
Which of these problems of prosperity has more cumulative cost to society?
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The "best inequality economist in the world" has built his entire public profile on his insistence that wealth inequality is exploding when it's demonstrably not.
And he keeps getting away with it.
Christian May@ChristianJMay
Gary Stevenson in The Times: “I’ll be totally honest with you, I think I am one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world."
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Because collectivization of agriculture, the most essential good, tends to end in famine.
Rob Steinernomics 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸@Steinernomics
Why can’t people accept that the sweet spot is probably that “free market capitalism” works best for goods and services that are non-essential and “socialism” works best for goods and services where life/health/education takes priority over profit? A bifurcated economy?
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