this may be of usehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1036921158094880768 …
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fuck already went "big fucking mood right there" out loud in my living room at 2:11 in the amhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1036921234498281472?s=20 …
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to answer more directly though any broadscale social scheme is going to have major problems with deadweight loss, moral hazard, adverse selection, and a bunch of other things that make it actually incredibly hard to get nice universal outcomes
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the entire point of third way liberalism was that "lets have some transfers and tax progressively but otherwise just let the engine of the market fucking GO" cuts around a lot of these problems and solves most of the object level problems you mention
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in the US most of the remainder has less to do with there not being enough money for things and more to do with (i) really shitty regulation that screws low income people, and (ii) deeply intractable social problems that no one knows how to solve
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about a quarter of the people in the US roughly speaking have an IQ of 90 or less about 10% have an IQ less than 80 that's like 35M people i dont know how much time you spend around people in this state but it is often difficult for them to get their lives in order
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homelessness is a good case study for this sort of thing there are roughly three tranches of homelessness: 1. homeless for economic reasons. lost job, have family, basically functional people. dealing with this is straightforward
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2. homeless because of addiction problems. this is difficult because the dependency is strong enough that people will refuse to eg go to a shelter if they have to stop using, and shelters have a difficult time putting addicts up because they often have behavioral issues
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3. homeless because of mental health. this is extremely difficult to deal with because the afflicted people are worse than nonfunctional, often destructive or unpredictably violent, can't keep up a living space. cures dont really exist
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we used to have asylums for (3) but they were often very bad, involved a lot of forcible drugging, in the 20C there were things like forced sterilization or lobotomies even rich families did this shit, eg rosemary kennedy. just evil so we got rid of asylums mostly
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this is the result and this kind of thing is a common pattern, you can generalize from this to other classes of problems :/pic.twitter.com/jLqUfHQi8q
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