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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Trevor McKendrick

    1/ this is Bad, Actually, in exactly the way that so much of the 20th century Caring Society is bad by lowering the penalties for X ( carjacking, breaking up a home with children in it, filing a false domestic violence police report, not speaking English) we encourage more Xhttps://twitter.com/TrevMcKendrick/status/1483524074902999040 …

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    Trevor McKendrickVerified account @TrevMcKendrick
    I’m super excited to announce my new company: Seis – banking built 100% in Spanish for the 44 million Spanish speakers in the US
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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

        2/ "but caring about people is good! making life easier is good!" yes ... but also, incentives matter the easier you make it to break up a marriage, the more marriages will be broken up "but the people involved WANT to break it up" perhaps ... but what about externalities?

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

        3/ "by offering banking in Spanish we make it easier for Spanish speakers to bank" true...but you also lower the incentives to learn English / make it easier for people to NOT learn English... ...and there are externalities to that. Societies are built on commonalities...

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

        4/ ...and the ability to COMMUNICATE is the most fundamental of those. "Hey, is this car that's parked on the sidewalk yours?" "¿que?"

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

        5/ I'm not mad, though. The collapse of the US is massively overdetermined. It's not like undoing this one bad idea would help anything. I just use it to elucidated a general principle about incentives at the margin and [ unseen ] externalities.

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 18

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Claude Rains, Zombie

        6/https://twitter.com/CRainsZombie/status/1483593535467053056?t=dYwAIUwPdEdwRg_cI4osCA&s=19 …

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        Claude Rains, Zombie @CRainsZombie
        Replying to @MorlockP
        The Los Angeles times ran an article several years ago about immigrants to SoCal, from China and other non-Latinate regions, who found it a greater priority to become conversant in Spanish rather than English
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      1. Brownian Motion‏ @cobrownell Jan 18
        Replying to @MorlockP

        My very upper-class Mexican friend -- whose English was impeccable -- once decided to "press 2 for Spanish", and after a few moments just requested to be transferred to the English line. "This is not Spanish; it hurts my ears."

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      1. Jade Breeze‏ @jadejadebreeze Jan 19
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        Not just that. "Built 100% in Spanish" implies English speakers are not welcome. (By contrast, all banks I've dealt with lately offered services in Spanish.) Now imagine the reaction to a bank that announced itself as "Built 100% in English for US English speakers."

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      1. Elam Bend‏ @ElamBend Jan 19
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        I’ve got an anecdote vis-à-vis this that I’ll share with you elsewhere

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