Michael Sullivan

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@Cutvin @StephenFleming @JeremiahDJohns Famously, strokes damage the suit-wearing portion of the brain.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@neuroticalways @mattyglesias He's being sarcastic. Matt (like everyone who's thought about it for literally a millisecond) is pro-people-coming-here-and-founding-very-successful-companies.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@LeiQiaosi @RichardHanania This is the same kind of insanity in which people claim that we shouldn't build any new housing when there are 1+ vacant houses in the area. People are not fungible and markets are not perfectly efficient.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@neqyve @mattyglesias I think that you'll have a good point if Platner destroys Collins -- if he racks up a big margin that looks like he's running ahead of the fundamentals. If he underperforms but ekes out a narrow win, then that looks like a strong Dem cycle.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@neqyve @mattyglesias I mean, it would be some evidence, but a Democrat winning a blue state in a blue cycle isn't a knock-down argument against the idea that Collins' moderation helps her -- just that the amount of help it gives is not infinite.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@dsnakenbacon @mattyglesias I think it has a lot more to do with having a President who shares the electoral strategy of the primary electorate rather than mitigating them in order to win the general.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@MilspecMoses @mattyglesias I definitely agree that if the election in November is voted in only by the Republican primary electorate, the Democrats will lose.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@WillCJohns @mattyglesias My bad!

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@florbamajoe @mattyglesias But you can't have those debates on the tradeoffs of "market power" theory vs consumer prices theory if the market power theorists respond to all debates by insisting that they are 100% focused on consumer prices (but also we should reject consumer price as an approach).

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@florbamajoe @mattyglesias There is certainly *some* merit to that argument. We can construct a toy model in which a monopsonist/monopolist does bad things besides "raise prices" in an economy. Does that really happen in a serious way? Is it worth trying to avoid? Those are serious debates.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@WillCJohns @mattyglesias That's different from not caring at all about consumer prices. But if one person just wants prices as low as possible, and the other person wants prices low, but is willing to sometimes accept higher prices for other goals, the second person cares less about prices!

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@WillCJohns @mattyglesias You can't care "just as much" about consumer prices and affordability. Look at Stoller's speech. Walmart keeps prices low for consumers. If you are focused on consumer prices, Walmart is good. If you want to break up Walmart, then you want prices to rise.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@MikeJViggiano @mattyglesias In fairness, Matt doesn't claim that neo-Brandeisians think price doesn't matter at all, just that they think it matters less than traditional antitrust enforcers (and in some cases argue for attacking large firms that seem to be actively lowering prices).

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@Mihoda @mattyglesias I do know the half of it, I live in the Bay Area and have two kids as well. And I understand why it's a big deal for you -- but you (and I) are in a very highly selected demographic.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@Mihoda @mattyglesias But it's for a relatively short time, and you're in a very high cost-of-living area.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@uhhhh362141 @mattyglesias Looks like crude suicide rate hit its lowest point in the late 1990s, picking back up since then. https://t.co/fFk5o63ssh

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@jainhugs @mattyglesias I think the point is to just deflate hyperbolic rhetoric. Yes, Matt is relatively famous. No, that doesn't mean that there are in fact "countless profiles" of him.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@DominikFascist @RichardHanania Mainly attack timings and ults.

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@NNBarnes @mattyglesias I mean. The employer isn't *fooled* on the cost to employ the employee. If they didn't cover the healthcare, they'd still have to pay a similar total compensation amount to the worker, just more would be salary (or other kinds of comp).

[Michael Sullivan @OverCommonName]

@QuaintTransfer @mattyglesias Maybe, but the type of date, the selection criteria of who to approach, and the behavior on the first date all seem non-trivially different depending on goals.