The most effective way to solve problems is via accidental side-effects.
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Unemployment is an especially good example of a problem tractable in this way.
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alternatively, the most effective way to achieve other policy goals is as a side effect of a robust, growing economy
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that macroeconomic version has a hidden dangerous assumption ("growth" being defined as a problem), but kinda.
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Ah. As Haresh Shah once told me, if you solve a problem people care about, you'll have a hard time NOT making money.
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This only works if the problem is one people WITH MONEY care about, not eg. the problem of teaching a CA class.
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That's an argument against inequality and for UBI. More people with money=diversity in how it gets used.
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Framed slightly differently, market success approaches other sorts of merit as purchasing power becomes equal.
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eg., feeding starving children would become crazy lucrative if $ were suddenly distributed equally.


