AFTER READING ABUNDANCE BY EZRA KLEIN & DEREK THOMPSON: 9 Lessons I Learned About Progress, Regulation, and Collective Ambition

AFTER READING ABUNDANCE BY EZRA KLEIN & DEREK THOMPSON: 9 Lessons I Learned About Progress, Regulation, and Collective Ambition – A Call to Rebuild Our Nation (Personal Reflection) In the 1950s, Americans believed in building. They built highways, suburbs, satellites. It wasn’t just infrastructure—they built a sense of destiny, of velocity, of rising above the limits imposed by the past. But sometime between the first moon landing and the last neighborhood protest against a new apartment complex, that faith dissolved. We traded ambition for caution. That is, in essence, the story behind Abundance. When Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson sat down to write this book, they weren’t trying to scold anyone. They weren’t here to argue that one side of the aisle had it right and the other was asleep at the wheel. They were noticing something subtler—and more troubling. They were asking why, in a world richer in ideas, capital, and talent than ever before, it still takes a decade to build a bridge or approve a housing complex. Why does it take longer to start a solar plant than it took to fight World War II? Grab a copy of this book!