The cultural emphasis HN has on original commentary and not doing low-effort link posting has its costs. Sometimes an FAQ model is just a superior line of inquiry.
The most plausible models for UK decline that I've encountered come from a Youtuber named Britmonkey.
He talks about housing as _ongoing existential crisis_, contra widespread apathy on the subject, and about how since Thatcher, the political rule has tended to integrate the worst aspects of center-left and center-right governments.
Ezra Klein's _Abundance_ has been in the news lately, and there are some very similar arguments made there, focused on the US context.
The most plausible models for UK decline that I've encountered come from a Youtuber named Britmonkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxzBcxB7Zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ
He talks about housing as _ongoing existential crisis_, contra widespread apathy on the subject, and about how since Thatcher, the political rule has tended to integrate the worst aspects of center-left and center-right governments.
Ezra Klein's _Abundance_ has been in the news lately, and there are some very similar arguments made there, focused on the US context.