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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I think you're probably right in that the deeper you go the harder it is to see clearly what's going on, and in that sense symptoms are more actionable. I still think that there's a spectrum between 'totally deep' and 'totally superficial,' and we should move towards the former.
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Interesting - are you struggling to accept *all* government funded schooling, from kindergarten on? If so that's pretty unusual. Do you think it wouldn't result in mass illiteracy or do you think that's not as bad as some outcomes of public education?
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I suppose, to extend your analogy in another direction: if your doctor has prescribed you some medication for a long time, your next doctor will be hesitant to take you off it without good reason, even if he doesn't fully understand why it was prescribed.
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I am always for finding the cause and correcting that. In the last 50 years, we have made great strides on how to give people insulin in their system, but we never directly tried to heal the cause of diabetes. Treating symptoms is more profitable as healing the cause
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Great analogy Each body responds differently to stressors and medicines But, medicine that works in other bodies is a good place to start with treatment… The advent of public education correlates with increased prosperity elsewhere…
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If you want to use the disease analogy then look at how other bodies have been treated. Does gov funded higher education work in other countries? What is the economic status of states that have raised the minimum wage without waiting for the feds to do it?
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Very interesting observation. I work in conjunction with education systems; public, private, and even homeschool. Funding is an issue, but here's the kicker: cash injections do not immediately improve performance or attendance. Funds can no longer fix the exact problem anymore.
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First Aid and medical care - in order to be effective - have no promise of being painless.
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The most ignored symptom is human nature.
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