These are real, empathetic motivations trying to solve concrete problems - but the body is deeply complex. Cough drops and asprin might relieve the pain, but maybe the medicine over time will cause other problems. Maybe the problem is actually a deeper disease.
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I am very hesitant to accept things like minimum wage and government funded schooling - not because I accept the symptoms, but because patching the symptoms might be worse for a the larger system - both in blinding us to the real issues, and causing more issues down the road.
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And too often I feel people who get outraged about social issues are not thinking in terms of large systems - they're thinking in terms of, "this thing hurts, and we need to make it stop in the quickest and easiest way." Our body is ridden with pills and stitches.
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This does not mean the symptoms are any less real or bad or motivating. Just because I don't agree with your choice of medication doesn't mean I approve of the disease. We are both fighting the same thing, just a little differently.
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You're a born alt-Righter. I say this appreciatively, btw.
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From what I've seen, people who identity as alt-right tend to approach things with a pretty closed mind, just as much as people from social justice circles.
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I love this metaphor. Many gov't programs and policies are just an endless carousel of placebo effects.
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Maybe, but there’s sound economic arguments for minimum wages (labor market is oligopsonistic) and for schooling (public good/average-cost pricing/natural monopolies). That said, it’s certainly possible that policy could alleviate in the short term and aggravate in the long term.
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If the economic case for both of these weren’t so strong, you would see some degree of variance in terms of policy across the world. Instead, you see that public schooling and minimum are ubiquitous.
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I see your libertarian side taking form, and I love it.
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i've been a libertarian for a decade dude
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