Re:The gift of it's your problem now
by pas on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:15PM
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> food production analogy
Yes, with the added twist that the people who don't have enough vastly outnumber those who have a lot. The real problem is not Elon and Bezos and the other token billionaires. After all their net worth is in their companies, most of it is unrealized capital gains.
The real problem is with the folks making over 150-200K but still think they are living "paycheck to paycheck"
So in reality it's not as simple as farmers telling homeless people to go somewhere else, but there's no more land left. It's more like the have-lots telling the have-a-bits to watch out for have-nots, and this works perfectly. Conservative populist rhetoric is very effective in suburbia.
> equal opportunity and equity
Yep. The big problem with this is that many people consider one time help as now take this and we're even "equal opportunity". Of course what's needed is a strong social safety net that helps people back on their feet. Shelter, healthcare (mental hygiene too!), education.
Again it's not cheap. And even though the economy is not zero-sum over long term, yearly budgets are. Hence the fight about how much on what to spend.
> culture
I think simply (ah yes, simply! :} ) going incrementally, starting with the best cost-benefit programs and areas. Focusing on cities where there's enough like-minded people to enact the policies, learn from the consequences, course correct, while not losing sight of the goals.
Yes, with the added twist that the people who don't have enough vastly outnumber those who have a lot. The real problem is not Elon and Bezos and the other token billionaires. After all their net worth is in their companies, most of it is unrealized capital gains.
The real problem is with the folks making over 150-200K but still think they are living "paycheck to paycheck"
https://mobile.twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/147776715594083...
So in reality it's not as simple as farmers telling homeless people to go somewhere else, but there's no more land left. It's more like the have-lots telling the have-a-bits to watch out for have-nots, and this works perfectly. Conservative populist rhetoric is very effective in suburbia.
> equal opportunity and equity
Yep. The big problem with this is that many people consider one time help as now take this and we're even "equal opportunity". Of course what's needed is a strong social safety net that helps people back on their feet. Shelter, healthcare (mental hygiene too!), education.
Again it's not cheap. And even though the economy is not zero-sum over long term, yearly budgets are. Hence the fight about how much on what to spend.
> culture
I think simply (ah yes, simply! :} ) going incrementally, starting with the best cost-benefit programs and areas. Focusing on cities where there's enough like-minded people to enact the policies, learn from the consequences, course correct, while not losing sight of the goals.