Mikkel Mensah

Bridging proposal: a vocabulary swap I'd accept.

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

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

"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."

Reading ladder — one book per cell, max difficulty.

"Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form."

"Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the…"

"Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at."