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Bari Weiss and Paul Krugman wouldn't agree on almost anything but they agree it's a better life to be writing for Substack than for the NYT.

I enjoy reading Krugman so much now because he seems to be having so much fun now that he doesn't have the weight of the New York Times editors on him.

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> they agree it's a better life to be writing for Substack than for the NYT.

The NYT pushed them out because they made fat salaries, money that could, in the company's view, be used to pay for cheaper and younger labor, among other cost-saving measures.

Which articles would you recommend? I used to like his writing way back when he wrote for Slate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

I particularly enjoyed this bit of nihilism:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittification-and-the-...

>Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned

Looks like generic "here's the horrible things rich people are thinking!" from a person who's never been around rich people and doesn't know any more about what they're thinking than anyone else.

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