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Ever since I started working on this article, a chart has been haunting me. It plots the percentage of people living alone in a country against that nation’s GDP. There’s a strong correlation. Nations where a fifth of the people live alone, like Denmark and Finland, are a lot richer than nations where almost no one lives alone, like the ones in Lat... See more

theatlantic.com • David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic

Projections are that, by 2050, one in four people in the UK will be aged 65 and over. Over the next 20 years, the number of people aged 85 and over – the group with the greatest needs for social care – is set to double (ONS, 2019).

Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform

The progressive homogenization of personalities and personal relationships cannot be stemmed without a retooling of society.

Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality

Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10x - Austin Vernon's Blog

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From Community to Collective: Institution and Agency in the Age of Social Networks

Douglas Thomas newcultureoflearning.com

Mark Perry • Just a moment...

In the 1960s and 1970s, destitute families often relied on extended kin networks to get by. Poor black families were “immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on,” wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did lit

Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Paul Ross

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called Classification and Regression Trees (CART), employs this elegant form of pruning, plus numerous other bells and whistles in its routines.11 CART was established by a 1984 book of the same name by four legendary researchers from Berkeley and Stanford: Leo Breiman, Jerome Friedman, Charles Stone, and Richard Olshen. I call them the “Fab Four.”