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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
19 Mar 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
“I think that’s true. They may be more likely to live north on Connecticut Avenue, but they’re still not angling for that to be much denser.”
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- 19 Mar 2025
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…It seems they want both, to me. I feel like, the elites of DC live in McLean — that was true 20 years ago, and it feels less true now. You still live there, but is that really what people do when they get rich in DC now? I feel like they buy expensive DC property because DC got safer, and the food got better, and all the things that everybody knows. I think that’s true. They may be more likely to live north on Connecticut Avenue, but they’re still not angling for that to be much denser. Quite the contrary. That might be right. Look, I think that people, when they get rich, want space. So, to the extent that density makes it harder to have space, I think people at a certain level of wealth probably have both a place in the city and a place a bit outside the city.…
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