#orencass — Public Fediverse posts
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Convened by #SiliconValley #billionaire #PeterThiel & #JDVance, then an investor who had written a best-selling memoir, the meeting included hedge fund heiress #RebekahMercer, then-FoxNews host #TuckerCarlson & economist #OrenCass, acc/to 2 people familiar…. The details have not been previously reported.
But the person in the room who would solidify the group’s ambitions was an Arizona insurance entrepreneur & conservative media figure named #ChrisBuskirk. -
“As a starting point and proof of concept, I propose the following Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI): the number of weeks of the median male wage required to pay for rent on a three-bedroom house at the 40th percentile of a local market’s prices, a family health insurance premium, a semester of public college, and the operation of a vehicle.”
#CostOfThriving #OrenCass
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-cost-of-thriving/