📊 EV’s charts of the week #1 beta
Hi,
We’re trialling a new Wednesday mail for members. It is a weekly chart drop. I see so many interesting analyses each week and want to share them with you. Comments are open for you to discuss with other members, building on the success of our Friday discussions.
Azeem
Biden’s 70% support
Joe Biden’s victory equalled 70% of the US economy, essentially “diverse, college-educated professions in professional and digital services occupations.” This economic rift will likely magnify into deep clashes between the political parties.
The winners
The winner-take-all economy in the US visualised. I’m curious about putting this together with the data above.
Apple speed
Slowly but surely Apple’s native chipsets have got more and more powerful, and they have done so faster than Intel’s. This is a textbook case of bottom-up disruption, starting away from Intel’s main turf and now exceeding it. The M-1 chip, announced yesterday, will likely be 30% more powerful than the A14 and use less power. (More detailed write-up here.)
Superspreader: virus gonna find ya’
Researchers studied 85,000 infected individuals and 575,000 contacts. They found that 60% of infections were caused by just a tenth of the people. (Apologies for the lame Abba pun.)
Endnote
I hope you enjoyed this mail. Comments are open if you want to discuss these analyses with each other.
Cheers,
Azeem
Dig deeper:
My discussion with Andrew Yang on the two-tier American economy.
My discussion with Yaneev Bar Ram on complexity approaches to understanding pandemics.
It's time to stop referring to "more productive people," perhaps. That's part of the problem. If you did what society told you to do, graduated from high school - sometimes even from college - and now are frozen out of the economy, working multiple low wage jobs to support your family, and having to choose whether to "become more productive" or help your child with learning, you might feel a bit left out when folks refer to you as unproductive and unworthy of assistance or respect. Sandel's book The Tyranny of Merit is worth reading as we contemplate the first chart.
thought provoking for sure. much of this difference is a proxy for education and urbanization. I am still fixed on the fact that whatever the reason 70 million of us chose Donald Trump