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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Josh Barro

The Pill. That’s what came to mind when I read this. I’m neither a doctor nor a sociologist but it’s seems The Pill was a similarly transformative drug. It changed the destiny of so many women, by easily controlling that which had previously been very challenging to control. That’s what it sounds like when I read your description of semiglutides.

And what did women do with their reproductive freedom? They worked! More of them got jobs, and more of them stayed on the job for longer.

Obviously this will look different with semiglutides in some way (again, neither a doctor nor a sociologist) but it establishes how a single pill unlocked extraordinary economic activity in the not-too-distant past.

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Laura, this is brilliant.

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