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by brianjoseff
3082 days ago
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> Why do we do this?
Also an issue of framing. Wrong metrics. With your framing above, it was "everyone should be a homeowner" and "everyone should be educated"... well we did that. Reality conformed. Just at tremendous cost and risk. The issues are of course way more complex than "# of ppl who own a home" and "# of ppl with a degree" So the question, then, is how do we use instruments of governance to move complex systems in the direction we think we want. This is complicated by, among other things:
1.) the fact that politicians are really just optimizing for "signaling" that they are fixing things rather than tangible results.
2.) long time horizons on these issues clashing with shorter time-horizons of political attention spans and our capacity to even reason about long-term things. etc... |
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