Jackson Arkland

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@conorsen @BullandBaird This song is really popular at Oktoberfest. When I was there around 2010 I think I heard this song every night in the beer halls in Munich. I think probably multiple times every night but my memory is a little hazy…

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@KesslerJeff @TheStalwart @DisgruntledDad In terms of CA, are you talking specifically about San Francisco? I've never lived in the Bay Area, but some of the South Bay and North Bay schools seemed really strong. I've heard schools in MA are generally great too though.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@davidclowery Respectfully, what you’re saying is all about how it connected to you personally. Maybe it was dead for you. As an 11 year old thousands of miles away from California in 1991, it’s hard to understate how important to me that music was for at least the next 10 years.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@HedgeDirty @dollarsanddata And, most importantly, for the parents to enjoy the luxury good that a fancy private school really is.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@HedgeDirty @dollarsanddata Outside of those extremely elite private schools, the purpose of private schools is primarily to be a country club where the 60-80 percentile can network and mingle and maintain their place in society.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@thebeltwayagent Technically I wasn’t born yet, but Indiana State’s run with Larry Bird has to be one of the greatest out-of-nowhere runs ever!

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@buccocapital you are probably going to have a great life.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@buccocapital At least for the first two or three years. Also, you can’t buy it, but in those incomes the biggest thing that usually determines if you are happy or not is whether you are happy with your family life. If you can avoid a messy divorce or kids that are drug addicts or suicidal,

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@conorsen @zack_a Similar to my other comment, this does not square with the real world. If a city had lost 90% of its population, something catastrophically has gone wrong. People would not have good vibes.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@conorsen In the real world, most people will almost certainly feel safer in that scenario unless the time period for population doubling is like multiple decades. Otherwise, if population is growing that rapidly, the city is getting way better and more desirable.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@conorsen @HedgeDirty Making a bunch of money when your in your 20s and don’t have kids is arguably more fun than a good college experience, and I don’t think being middle of your class at a big state school is going to get most people there unless they have family money or connections.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@conorsen @HedgeDirty It’s been over 20 years for me, but doing really well in college still seems like a massive benefit to a young adult’s career. I worked over 20 hours a week and studied pretty hard in college and missed out on some of the social stuff, but it was totally worth it.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@buccocapital If entry-level white collar jobs are wiped out, how confident are you that your portfolio doesn’t take a major hit? Do you think diversified index funds are sufficient? It terms of big public companies, it seems like there would be way more losers than winners.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@hassankhan I’m so sorry for your loss. Whenever you posted about your brother it always put a smile on my face, at least until this time…

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@selling_theta Having lived through both, it’s weird to me. I knew so many people post 2008 that lost their jobs, were out of work for extended periods of time, as well as lots of people that lost their homes via foreclosure. The post-COVID era was nothing like that.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@selling_theta Other than in the post-COVID era, inflation has been contained my entire life so I can’t really disagree. I wasn’t there for it, but I think this would also be consistent with 1980.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@selling_theta The Obama campaign also seemed to have very effectively portrayed Romney as a ruthless corporate raider and not as a moderate conservative technocrat. I think people weren’t just voting for Obama but also voting against Romney.

[Jackson Arkland @JacksonArkland]

@selling_theta What about 2012? Obamacare got off to a really rough (and slow) start and it seemed like the recovery from 2009-2012 was going more slowly than 2021-2024.