people really out here thinking houses maintain themselveshttps://twitter.com/Alysonesque/status/1005989848577073152 …
...because housing and food we need *all the time,* and we can handle a wide range in quality, price, and selection, according to our taste and means. For people who struggle with these "all the time" expenses, we DO allocate public funding--but we could do a better job of it.
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This isn’t really the important question. What matters is whether or not we should *aspire* to providing these things, or if we want our society to be one in which it’s possible to be homeless or to starve.
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every society *starts* as one in which it's possible to be homeless or starve and so far I'm not aware of many which have entirely escaped that situation--maybe they just didn't aspire hard enough though
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That’s not quite what I’m talking about. I apologize if this is derailing the convo, but again, the fact that a problem hasn’t been solved yet isn’t really relevant to whether or not you want to do it.
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right--but the fact that people really want to solve a problem isn't always relevant to the problem actually being soluble
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...and where intractable problems are concerned, it can get really frustrating to keep hearing "maybe you just don't want the solution enough"
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To be clear I am NOT trying to say this. That would be terrible.
End of conversation
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