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How to Make Daycare, Healthcare, and Housing Cheaper: An Abundance Playbook
A running list of state and local rules that raise prices on the biggest line items in a family budget, and what to do about them.
Feb 24
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11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor
Making it cheaper to be old, sick, or fragile in America. An abundance playbook.
Mar 18
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal
Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.
Sep 10, 2025
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How Working-Class People Talk About Uber Is Not How the Media Covers It
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Cars often keep people poor. Waymo could help.
May 6
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A blocked GMO rice could have saved 100,000 children. The same tech makes pineapples pink.
Jun 16
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11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor
Mar 18
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Abi Olvera
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal
Sep 10, 2025
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Abi Olvera
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Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 23 years. The case for Abundance.
Apr 28
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Abi Olvera
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We Can Have Nicer Cheaper Things
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How to cut suicide rates, healthcare costs, crime, and prices. The gatekeeping problem in 30% of US jobs.
The rules about who is legally allowed to do which jobs are one of the most consequential policy levers most people have never heard of.
May 20
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Alicia Plemmons
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The Boring Reason We Don't Have $7 Rideshares
Rideshare rules written for a skeptical era are now a barrier to the affordable transportation people actually depend on.
Dec 19, 2025
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Abi Olvera
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Healthcare Has a NIMBY Problem and It's Why Independent Primary Care Clinics Have Nearly Disappeared
The system lets existing hospitals block new clinics, keeps qualified foreign doctors from practicing, and gives specialists control over pricing, which…
Dec 10, 2025
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Make Life Better for Poor People
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A blocked GMO rice could have saved 100,000 children. The same tech makes pineapples pink.
A rice that could prevent childhood blindness and death has been ready for two decades. It still isn't growing anywhere. The same technology is safely…
Jun 16
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Cars often keep people poor. Waymo could help.
The poorest fifth of American families spend 38% of their income on a car. The breakdowns and road deaths that fall hardest on them are just the cost of…
May 6
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Low-wage work isn't a job. It's a whole world with its own logic and norms.
I spent six years in low wage work. Media and policy debates tend to flatten something that's actually quite complex. Low wage work is a system.
Mar 9
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Protecting Democracy
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