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Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by ch4s3 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:56AM (#45183831)
You read a lot of books about economics, history, and political science and suddenly everything starts to look like it's complicated. The recent trend of commentators shouting "it's actually not complicated" is troubling. I try to present commentary with some nuance and humility. I have a perspective, but I endeavor to leave room for the possibility that I don't have a full understanding or that my model of the world doesn't fit every set of circumstances.
Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by bombcar on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:35PM (#45185448)
The key I realized is that there is always complexity, but the "simple" understanding is still "mostly" right.

No complexity can make a $1 billion expense able to be paid with $1m of revenue.

Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by ch4s3 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:10PM (#45189205)
> but the "simple" understanding is still "mostly" right.

I rarely find this to be the case for anything big or important.