Charm City Slicker

@sprawlhater.bsky.social

Baltimore creature. Obsessed with film, music, and poetry. Public transit/urbanism advocate. Dry barfly. Socialist. O's fan. He/him or they/them. Posts delete daily. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5xOCV

I've been seeing some reels on instagram about attire recently and a lot of the suggestions seem to revolve around what to wear on an occasion called a "coffee run" which as far as I can tell is just when you go get a coffee. I did not know that trendy people have entire outfits dedicated to coffee

Bruenig is of course correct about how western European productivity+ income is actually higher than that of the US, but I would make a more fundamental point: income is a bad proxy for wealth, and richness is about wealth. We have measures for net worth per adult by country and Europe beats the US.

Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · yesterday

“Western Europe Is Richer Than the US” by Matt Bruenig peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w... // Bruenig’s ability to cut through a noisy argument with the most straightforward possible case is unmatched.