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Links For April 2025
A collection of 41 interesting links and news items from April 2025, covering AI, politics, culture, and science, with Scott's commentary on each.
26 min read 3,899 words
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Essays tagged “minimum wage”. Follow an idea across the archive.
Essays on minimum wage
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Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad
Scott Alexander examines how increased rational debate doesn't always lead to truth, using personal and societal examples, and suggests ways to carefully approach traditions and changes.
25 min read 3,807 words
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Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Scott analyzes wage stagnation since 1973, examining various explanations and concluding that while wages have risen 40-50%, there is still significant decoupling from productivity due to multiple factors.
42 min read 6,438 words
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Links 7/17: URL of Sandwich
A collection of interesting links spanning architecture, science, politics and economics, with commentary on studies about lithium, lead exposure, minimum wage, and free speech.
15 min read 2,200 words
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Debunked And Well-Refuted
Scott criticizes the misuse of terms like 'debunked' in academic and political discourse, arguing for more nuanced examination of studies and their critiques.
14 min read 2,081 words
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Beware The Man Of One Study
Scott Alexander cautions against basing opinions on limited research, using examples from medicine and economics to show how cherry-picking studies can lead to opposing conclusions.
19 min read 2,880 words
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Links for January
A collection of interesting links covering topics from Mormon facial recognition to migraine treatments to housing policy, with Scott's analysis and commentary on each.
15 min read 2,192 words
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A Something Sort Of Like Left-Libertarianism-ist Manifesto
Scott Alexander advocates for a political philosophy combining free markets with social welfare, proposing market-based alternatives to current welfare programs and regulations.
23 min read 3,475 words
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Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 1 of ∞)
Scott Alexander debunks a viral image about minimum wage and apartment affordability, showing how its methodology is flawed and recalculating more realistic figures.
9 min read 1,311 words
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The death of wages is sin
Scott Alexander critiques a plan to cure youth unemployment by abolishing minimum wage, arguing that unemployment might be preferable to miserable employment at extremely low wages.
7 min read 1,078 words
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A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott proposes that class-based attitudes toward wealth redistribution are driven by status signaling rather than "last place aversion," where lower middle class people oppose redistribution to differentiate themselves from the poor, while upper middle class people support it to differentiate themselves from the lower middle class.
7 min read 987 words