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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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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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    10. acid shill‏ @acidshill 27 Dec 2020
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      looks like things were going alright in the 70s

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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      well sort ofpic.twitter.com/18LE67457Y

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        2. acid shill‏ @acidshill 27 Dec 2020
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          i mean, okay but still, bold of you to believe in statistics

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Dec 2020
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          i dont but simply plotting data is often fairly reliable if you dont like that im going to simply pull rank and remind you that you were not even a twinkle in your daddys eye when many major us cities were largely no go zones

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