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Why Matthew Yglesias Thinks There Should Be One Billion Americansshould i give you like like the rea
Updated on Jan 15,2023
Why Matthew Yglesias Thinks There Should Be One Billion Americans
should i give you like like the real,answer of how i came to write this book,or should i give you like the the book,pitch answer give us the real answer,um you know so,i'm a writer i've been writing a lot of,stuff an agent reached out to me and,he's like hey matt you know i'd be,interested in representing you and you,know talking about some book ideas and,stuff and i said i don't know um but we,went to get some breakfast tacos and,talk about stuff and he was like well,what are you interested in and i gave,them like,five six seven different things that i'm,interested in,and it kept being like ah but i don't,really know if that's a book,i don't really know if that's a book and,i agreed with him frankly this you know,but so i'm really interested in housing,i'm interested in immigration policy i'm,interested in transportation um i dabble,a little bit in,kind of,how should we frame things in politics,and trying to get progressive people to,be more patriotic,i see one of you up here it's got an,american flag in your background and i,love it um you know but these were all,kind of,topics it wasn't really a thing,and,so you know we had a nice time but we,didn't really come up with an idea and,uh sorry i was out with with a friend of,mine a little bit later and you know we,were having some beers and getting,pretty pretty thick into it and you know,it was like how about this for a title,what if i had a book and it was called,one billion americans and he was like i,don't know and it's like what's that,book about it's like it's about how,there should be one billion americans,um and what i liked about the idea was,that it ties together a lot of different,things that i am interested in so if you,read the book you know one chapter is,really about um,welfare state design and,the case for,investing more money in supporting uh,families and children and also a theory,of how we should design programs that do,that there's a chapter that's about,housing there's a chapter that's about,regional development policy um as you,guys know in in chicago um chicago is a,really big city it's doing well it has,some problems but it's there but a lot,of other midwestern cities you know are,in really deep trouble i mean detroit,cleveland st louis,the smaller ones you know milwaukee,akron have just seen their populations,greater,and so i'm interested in in those,problems of those places i'm interested,in urban transportation issues you know,how can you make buses run better,how come chicago why the l has much,lower operating costs than the subways,in new york or los angeles san francisco,dc um and i think a lot of people don't,know that don't know what's good about,that uh but our construction costs,everywhere in the united states or sky,high um,so a billion americans is a thesis that,poses a lot of really obvious questions,like where are these people gonna go,how will we get around what will we do,and so i was able to pull in tons of,stuff that i was writing about that i,was covered that i'm kind of fascinated,by,um and sort of use answering the billion,americans question as like an excuse to,delve into all these topics,but there is also a thesis that i,believe in and that i stand behind and,so you know the the pitch version,is uh,well you know donald trump was president,and a lot of us we were very concerned,with you know how that happened and how,it went and the theme of american,greatness and i saw that you know to,truly be great we have to embrace our,destiny in the world and you know i have,a whole official argument that i suppose,i can give you,wonderful,why don't you tell us that a little bit,in the book the premise is to just is,really that you know the vehicle to get,to one billion americans,through immigration,would be through potentially,pro-natalist policies tell us a little,bit about how,you know the u.s might embark on,tripling its population,sure um so there's two real ways that a,country can increase its population uh,one is to import more people from abroad,the other is to grow our own here at,home,i think that we should do both of those,uh some people fall in for a kind of,either or framing um you know i think,there's compelling arguments for each uh,one important one that i think a lot of,people don't realize is simply that,in surveys,people have fewer children than they say,they would ideally like to have and,we've been falling kind of further and,further behind people's stated goals and,it's not because you know people um,the economics of having kids have gotten,worse uh when you ask people why don't,you have more kids than than you do,the number one reason they give is the,cost of child care the number two reason,is well i didn't have enough financial,stability,uh the number three reason is about,trouble finding the right partner but,then four and five are other things,related to cost and so sometimes people,will say,oh you know we shouldn't do all this,prenatal stuff it's just you know people,don't want to have children a
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