Pretty much killed by the tax <| sep |> The Weeds is a much better podcast than 538 . If you try too hard to avoid partisan opinions , you ' re missing out on very smart interpretations of the political landscape . IMO , Nate Silver tries too hard to limit the discussion to what ' s empirical , whereas Matt , Ezra and Sarah try to be a bit more broad and hypothetical , which leads them in interesting directions . even if their interpretations aren ' t neutral or true . <| sep |> Anyone who still believes in bootstrappery or that poor people are lazy because they don ' t work hard enough needs to spend a year workingYou could probably end the statement there since it seems the people who most often think this way are those who were either born into wealth or who had an inordinate amount of wealth handed to them for their light labor .