Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor
by rdtsc on Sunday October 25, 2015 @03:57PM
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Thanks JupiterMoon!
Yeah I agree with that point they made. I just didn't explicitly say it. I should have probably.
What I focused on was the idea that it often boils down to a feeling. And I agree with that too, but I wanted to point that it is important how people arrive at those feelings.
GP showed some example, but I didn't find those convincing. I think a lot of what people believe and think gets acquired and filtered through 3rd party sources (media, friends, parents, teacher etc). And even though a lot of people have strong feelings about welfare, they might not have gotten those from their own experiences.
And then of course there are whole industries (marketing, pr, propaganda) whose goal is manage feeling, perceptions and ideas in others.
Anyway, to recap I didn't disagree with their main idea, just wanted to expand on one part of it.
Yeah I agree with that point they made. I just didn't explicitly say it. I should have probably.
What I focused on was the idea that it often boils down to a feeling. And I agree with that too, but I wanted to point that it is important how people arrive at those feelings.
GP showed some example, but I didn't find those convincing. I think a lot of what people believe and think gets acquired and filtered through 3rd party sources (media, friends, parents, teacher etc). And even though a lot of people have strong feelings about welfare, they might not have gotten those from their own experiences.
And then of course there are whole industries (marketing, pr, propaganda) whose goal is manage feeling, perceptions and ideas in others.
Anyway, to recap I didn't disagree with their main idea, just wanted to expand on one part of it.