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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Sometimes a society has symptoms, like a body. It coughs the cough of low wages or gets the headache of unaffordable schooling. We are empathetic, we want to help - so we say, give the cough drop of minimum wage! Take the asprin of government-funded schooling!
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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@sheriuph
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@Aella_Girl
This is well structured and valuable. Have you, though, considered how these deeper causes at the roots of the pipeline might be so dynamic, chaotic, and hard to control, that the only effective place to address the symptom is at the end of the pipeline right before that symptom?
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LeksiW is a Human
@LeksiW
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@Aella_Girl
I support public education to make sure everyone around me is literate and able to understand as much as possible before they go vote. It's been failing us of late. But rigorous science knowledge is a good start in fighting ignorance.
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socratesyoself
@socratesyoself
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@Aella_Girl
A few questions for you. In which countries is it easiest to be become a millionaire and why? Should we pursue equality of opportunity? Is education the cause or symptom of inequality? If we abolished a minimum wage what would be the affect of introducing a maximum wage instead?
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@Dreamscythe
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@Aella_Girl
Talk about blind, public education is the biggest success story of social intervention of all time, yet the issue libertarians come to us with is "the wealthy somehow need more" while ignoring the human carnage they leave in pursuing their only goal.
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