{"id":1097,"date":"2026-04-09T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:26:10","slug":"why-cost-disease-is-the-secret-force-behind-americas-toxic-solitude-derek-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-cost-disease-is-the-secret-force-behind-americas-toxic-solitude-derek-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy &#8216;Cost Disease&#8217; Is the Secret Force Behind America&#8217;s Toxic Solitude\u201d &#8211; Derek Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBaumol recognized that this principle extended across the entire economy, beyond farms and opera houses. Some sectors, such as growing corn and making electronics, have become more efficient and productive thanks to new technology, trade, and automation. But other sectors\u2014 especially services, such as haircuts, theater performances, and watching toddlers in daycare\u2014still require as much labor as they did before the Industrial Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.derekthompson.org\/p\/why-cost-disease-is-the-secret-force\">https:\/\/www.derekthompson.org\/p\/why-cost-disease-is-the-secret-force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBaumol recognized that this principle extended across the entire economy, beyond farms and opera houses. Some sectors, such as growing corn and making electronics, have become more efficient and productive thanks to new technology, trade, and automation. But other sectors\u2014 especially services, such as haircuts, theater performances, and watching toddlers in daycare\u2014still require as much&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}