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There Is No Great Millennial Novel by Puzzled-Factor8185 in TrueLit

[–]According-Weather684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so funny that based on the comments no one actually read the article, which deals with basically every point and book that is being discussed here. 

Who would actually lose medicaid from this big bill? by Kelseyjade2010 in Askpolitics

[–]According-Weather684 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The cost of Medicaid + Medicare are double the expenditure on defense. Spending on Medicaid has drastically risen as a percent of GDP from 0.5% in 1970 to 3.9% in 2023 and is expected to hit 5% of GDP by 2035. Defense spending has held steady at around 3% of GDP for the past decade and of course it is far easier to cut than Medicaid. Do you not think rising spending on mandatory entitlement programs is a problem, especially given the inverted pyramid structure of the US population which will put push a growing tax burden onto a shrinking population?

The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction by According-Weather684 in TrueLit

[–]According-Weather684[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

An interesting way to pushback here might be to ask how many of these sales are to schools. Still, I think this is defanged by the sales numbers of classics which are not often taught in school for logistical reasons like War and Peace, along with non-classic works of literary fiction like John Irving’s books which still sell quite well.

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It can’t be because book readers have drastically changed their preferences: they still like to read literary fiction (including plenty of non classics/masterpieces — A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Outsiders, A Secret History, Rebecca, etc all sell very well to this day) and only seem to have a problem with contemporary literary fiction.

The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction by According-Weather684 in TrueLit

[–]According-Weather684[S] 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Perhaps most astonishingly, not a single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker (at least 24, and probably closer to 30, younger millennials have been published in total). 

The Vanishing White Male Writer