When he doesn't write about politics or economics — topics on which he's outrageously incompetent — Ganesh makes excellent observations (e.g., here #874003). Here's one...one that I will confess I'm still slightly too young to fully embrace.
He's out traveling and marvels at how nice it is to be childless and no longer as poor/income constrained as he would have been earlier in his life.
"in my twenties, these tours would have been far beyond my means. Later in life, they might be beyond my physical capacity"
He says he'd happily choose 43, his current age, over either 28 or 70.
the equidistant age is when someone is likeliest to have the Goldilocks conditions of surplus income and the surplus energy with which to enjoy it.
Booze window too is better: at too elevated an age, it interferes with medication and hangovers are a biiiitch (my words, not his lol!); at too young age, there isn't usually enough dough to taste the good stuff.
He obviously suffers from what's now known as "the JD Vance attack": being a male cat lady (ie, no kids), his value judgements might not be properly aligned.
Whatcha think, Stackers?
Non-paywalled here: https://archive.md/cAMXS