Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness - by Scott Alexander

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Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness ... Scott Alexander Jul 21, 2026 365 491 25 Share Cassie Pritchard, on Twitter : I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still aren’t content. They’re not satisfied. So the people must be wrong. We are unfathomably richer than our ancestors. Output per capita in America today is on the order of 900 times greater than before the invention of agriculture, about ~225 times higher than in 1 CE, and ab

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