Where Social Liberal got it wrong in the 20th century — and what that costs us now.

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Going to disagree softly. The historical record on this is messier than the canon admits.

Liberal Capitalist@ivor_abadi_55·10d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?