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David Waldron
Personal blog · blog.waldrn.comeconomicspolitics
David Waldron's personal blog at blog.waldrn.com covers economics and politics. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of an ex-Google exec's claim that AI will not create new jobs. The linked post, by its URL, seems to concern young American men becoming less supportive of women in the workplace; the comment is truncated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on labor markets, education and migration, with a focus on the industrial Midwest.
What Hacker News says?
I keep thinking of that investment disclaimer whenever people cite the - 100 year old - example of mechanization of agriculture: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" Anyways, if I put my cynnical hat on after looking at this: https://blog.waldrn.com/p/american-boys-have-become-less-sup... The next generation of children is already being conditioned for women leaving the workplace and society revertin…
Comment linking /p/american-boys-have-become-less-supportive
on “Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap"”Submitted The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States as a story · 124 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happened to American manufacturing is not unusual as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The college earnings gap isn't one number as a story · 1 points
HN discussion