Yuki Martinez

"Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking."

"This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't."

"Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at."

"Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it."

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

"This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too."

"I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction."

"This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too."

"Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help."

Internal tensions inside Longist we don't talk about enough.

Internal tensions inside Longist we don't talk about enough.