Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Universal Basic Income

Re:Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Univ... by lifeisstillgood on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:44PM (#20724834)

Back in the hey day of Blair's administration, the phrase "what works, works" was used to explain "evidence based policy making" a third way friendly approach.

This has definitely lost its shine as Blair and Clinton have yet to be re-re-discovered as before their time thinkers (#).

But this disdain for evidence tends to lead to the triumph of "common sense" - policies actively pandering to biases in the voters

And this seems like one of those awful ideas that might just gain traction.

It's a commune, a Kibbutz. A cult on a farm in Nebraska. It's idealism not looking down at the muddy ground underneath. God it's what I tried to create when I was an undergraduate. Let's not go there.

(#) Trust me, everything goes round in cycles

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Re:Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Univ... by aalleavitch on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:06PM (#20725353)

Kibbutzim worked out fine, though. In what way have they been shown as failures by evidence? On the contrary, these types of communes succeed with good charters.

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