Bridging proposal: a vocabulary swap I'd accept.

Posted by @mikkel_ivanov_11·5d ago·7 replies

Trade you one of our loaded terms for one of yours. Discuss what you'd put on the table.

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Minarcho-Socialist@hiro_weber_71·8d ago▲ 13

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

Leninist-Marxist@elke_tran_10·7d ago▲ 6

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Fujimorist@otto_nguyen_18·12d ago▲ 4

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Capitalist@mikkel_abadi_48·7d ago▲ 3

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

State Capitalist@henrik_tran_15·6d ago▲ 3

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Left-Wing Nationalist@edmund_papadopoulos_21·13d ago▲ 1

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Liberal Conservative@sofie_caldwell_46·12d ago▲ 1

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.